Demonstration of a 1024-channel time slot selector for ultrafast OTDM networks

Author

Deng, Kung-Li ; Kang, Koo Il ; Glesk, Ivan ; Prucnal, Paul

Author_Institution

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

Volume

1

fYear

1997

fDate

10-13 Nov 1997

Firstpage

22

Abstract

In the paper, we demonstrate a tunable delay line which is able to access 1024 channels, each at 50 Mbps, with reconfiguration time of 20 ns allowing aggregate capacity of up to 50 Gbps. To our knowledge, this is the largest number of rapidly tuned channels achieved to date, thus demonstrating the potential of optical time division multiplexing (OTDM) for large dimensionality systems

Keywords

high-speed optical techniques; optical delay lines; optical fibre networks; optical fibre subscriber loops; optical transmitters; photonic switching systems; time division multiplexing; tuning; 1024-channel time slot selector; 20 ns; 50 Gbit/s; 50 Mbit/s; TDM; aggregate capacity; large dimensionality systems; optical time division multiplexing; rapidly tuned channels; reconfiguration time; tunable delay line; ultrafast OTDM networks; Aggregates; Clocks; Delay effects; Delay lines; Laser tuning; Lattices; Optical modulation; Optical tuning; Pulse generation; Time division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics Society Annual Meeting, 1997. LEOS '97 10th Annual Meeting. Conference Proceedings., IEEE

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA

ISSN

1092-8081

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3895-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LEOS.1997.630497

Filename

630497