Title :
Demonstration and network scalability analysis of 8-fiber-delay-line SOA-based optical buffer embedded optical packet switching
Author :
Furukawa, Hiroshi ; Shinada, S. ; Miyazawa, Takaya ; Hirayama, Takatsugu ; Wada, N. ; Harai, Hiroaki
Author_Institution :
Nat. Inst. of Inf. & Commun. Technol., Koganei, Japan
Abstract :
We demonstrated an 8-fiber-delay-line optical buffer with SOA switches for forwarding 100 Gbit/s IP-packet-encapsulated optical packets. We derived the maximum number of node hops under error-free operation when buffer scale is increased up to 32 FDLs.
Keywords :
optical burst switching; optical delay lines; optical fibre networks; optical switches; packet switching; semiconductor optical amplifiers; FDL; IP-packet-encapsulated optical packets; SOA switches; SOA-based optical buffer; bit rate 100 Gbit/s; error-free operation; fiber delay line; network scalability analysis; optical packet switching; semiconductor optical amplifier switches; Adaptive optics; Degradation; Optical buffering; Optical packet switching; Optical switches; Q-factor; Semiconductor optical amplifiers;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC), 2014
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-5575-2994-7
DOI :
10.1364/OFC.2014.W2A.19
