Title :
All-optical SOA-based packet detection for packet-rate synchronization
Author :
Bakopoulos, P. ; Tsiokos, D. ; Apostolopoulos, D. ; Petrantonakis, D. ; Kehayas, E. ; Avramopoulos, H.
Author_Institution :
Photonics Commun. Res. Lab., Nat. Tech. Univ. of Athens, Greece
Abstract :
We demonstrate a simple all-optical technique to detect the beginning of a packet for packet-rate synchronization. It employs a packet clock recovery unit and a SOA and it requires no special data encoding to operate.
Keywords :
optical communication equipment; optical switches; packet switching; semiconductor optical amplifiers; synchronisation; all-optical SOA; optical packet switching; packet clock recovery; packet detection; packet-rate synchronization;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication, 2005. ECOC 2005. 31st European Conference on
Conference_Location :
IET
Print_ISBN :
0-86341-543-1
