Title :
Optical packet switched ring node for optical packets at 160 Gb/s data rate
Author :
Wang, W. ; Calabretta, N. ; Gomez-Agis, F. ; Ditewig, T. ; Dorren, Harm J S
Author_Institution :
COBRA Res. Inst., Eindhoven Univ. of Technol., Eindhoven, Netherlands
Abstract :
We investigate the feasibility of an optical packet-switched ring network node operating at 160 Gb/s, by employing in-band labeling and SOA based wavelength conversion. We find error-free operation with low power penalty over the complete system.
Keywords :
packet switching; semiconductor optical amplifiers; SOA based wavelength conversion; error-free operation; in-band labeling; optical packet-switched ring network node; semiconductor optical amplifier; Optical fibers; Optical filters; Optical packet switching; Optical switches; Optical wavelength conversion; Payloads;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication (ECOC), 2010 36th European Conference and Exhibition on
Conference_Location :
Torino
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-8536-9
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-8534-5
DOI :
10.1109/ECOC.2010.5621142
