All-Optical Label/Payload Separation at 40 Gb/s

Author

Apostolopoulos, D. ; Petrantonakis, D. ; Zouraraki, O. ; Kehayas, E. ; Pleros, N. ; Avramopoulos, H.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Nat. Tech. Univ. of Athens

Volume

18

Issue

19

fYear

2006

Firstpage

2023

Lastpage

2025

Abstract

We demonstrate an all-optical label/payload separation circuit implemented with hybridly integrated semiconductor-optical-amplifier-based Mach-Zehnder switches. It is shown to operate error-free with 40-Gb/s variable length data packets containing 2⁷-1 pseudorandom bit sequence and short guardbands between them. The circuit requires only the data packets as input and its complexity does not increase with label length

Keywords

Mach-Zehnder interferometers; data communication; integrated optics; integrated optoelectronics; optical fibre communication; optical switches; packet switching; random sequences; semiconductor optical amplifiers; 40 Gbit/s; Mach-Zehnder interferometer; all-optical label; data packets; error-free operation; hybrid integrated switches; payload separation circuit; pseudorandom bit sequence; semiconductor optical amplifier; variable length data packets; Multiprotocol label switching; Optical interferometry; Optical network units; Optical packet switching; Optical signal processing; Optical switches; Optical wavelength conversion; Payloads; Pulse compression methods; Switching circuits; All-optical label swapping; integrated Mach–Zehnder interferometer; label separation; optical packet switching;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2006.883328

Filename

1703623