System approach for a photonic multidimensional switching technique

Author

Boettle, D. ; Eilenberger, G. ; Loesch, K. ; Rehm, W. ; Wuenstel, K. ; Schilling, M.

Author_Institution

Alcatel SEL Res. Center, Stuttgart, Germany

Volume

2

fYear

1993

fDate

23-26 May 1993

Firstpage

1220

Abstract

A system concept for an optical switching fabric based on a principle using space, time, and frequency switching stages is described. The required asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) cell buffers for contention resolution, which are difficult to realize with optical techniques, are minimized by exploiting the wavelength domain, thus providing high capacity and optimum usage of technologies. The related key components, such as tunable sources and optical wavelength converters based on InP technologies and advanced space switching matrices based on polymeric nonlinear optical materials, are described, and basic characteristics are presented

Keywords

III-V semiconductors; asynchronous transfer mode; indium compounds; laser tuning; multidimensional systems; nonlinear optics; optical interconnections; optical polymers; photonic switching systems; semiconductor technology; systems engineering; wavelength division multiplexing; ATM; InP semiconductor technologies; asynchronous transfer mode; capacity; cell buffers; characteristics; contention resolution; optical wavelength converters; photonic multidimensional switching technique; polymeric nonlinear optical materials; space switching matrices; system concept; tunable sources; Asynchronous transfer mode; Fabrics; Frequency; Multidimensional systems; Nonlinear optical devices; Nonlinear optics; Optical buffering; Optical devices; Optical polymers; Space technology;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications, 1993. ICC '93 Geneva. Technical Program, Conference Record, IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Geneva

Print_ISBN

0-7803-0950-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICC.1993.397469

Filename

397469