Title :
An all-optical bufferless multiwavelength sorter for 40 Gb/s asynchronous variable-length optical packets
Author :
Hu, Z. ; Rangarajan, S. ; Rau, L. ; Blumenthal, D.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., California Univ., Santa Barbara, CA, USA
Abstract :
We present a new all-optical multiwavelength sorter designed for asynchronous, variable-length packets. We demonstrate experimentally that the scheme efficiently implements sorting function without contention for 40 Gb/s variable packets at a BER of less than 10-9 without an error floor.
Keywords :
error statistics; optical switches; packet switching; 40 Gbit/s; BER; asynchronous variable-length optical packets; bufferless multiwavelength sorter; Bit error rate; High speed optical techniques; Magnetic flux leakage; Optical buffering; Optical packet switching; Optical receivers; Optical transmitters; Passive optical networks; Tunable circuits and devices; Wavelength measurement;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communications Conference, 2003. OFC 2003
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-746-6
DOI :
10.1109/OFC.2003.1247545
