Passive shared media systems

Author

Prucnal, Paul ; Perrier, Philippe

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Princeton Univ., NJ, USA

fYear

1990

fDate

16-19 Apr 1990

Firstpage

1135

Abstract

A passive shared media space-division photonic switching architecture with the potential for extremely high dimensionality is presented. The architecture, which resembles a collapsed network, eliminates the restrictions 2×2 switching elements impose in classical space-division switching architectures by providing a dedicated path for all input- and output-port connections on a common transmission medium. Switching between two input ports and three output ports of a space-division time-multiplexed photonic switch with 120×120 input/output port capacity was demonstrated. The aggregate throughput was 12 Gb/s

Keywords

channel capacity; code division multiple access; crosstalk; frequency division multiple access; optical interconnections; optical switches; switching systems; time division multiple access; 12 Gbit/s; CDMA; FDMA; aggregate throughput; crosstalk; input/output port capacity; passive shared media systems; space-division photonic switching; time-multiplexed photonic switch; Communication switching; Optical arrays; Optical crosstalk; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber networks; Optical interconnections; Optical switches; Optical waveguides; Repeaters; Telecommunication switching;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications, 1990. ICC '90, Including Supercomm Technical Sessions. SUPERCOMM/ICC '90. Conference Record., IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Atlanta, GA

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICC.1990.117249

Filename

117249