Title :
Optical time-to-live decrementing and subsequent dropping of an optical packet
Author :
McGeehan, J. ; Kumar, S. ; Willner, A. ; Bannister, J. ; Touch, J.
Author_Institution :
Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Abstract :
An optical time-to-live (TTL) decrementing module for optical packet-switched networks is demonstrated. Our module acts on an NRZ-modulated binary TTL field and decrements it, drops a packet if its TTL is zero, and is independent of the TTL length.
Keywords :
packet switching; switching networks; NRZ-modulated binary optical time-to-live field; optical packet-switched networks; optical time-to-live decrementing module; Extinction ratio; Optical fiber networks; Optical pulses; Optical saturation; Optical signal processing; Optical waveguides; Performance gain; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Semiconductor waveguides; Stimulated emission;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communications Conference, 2003. OFC 2003
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-746-6
DOI :
10.1109/OFC.2003.1248580
