Demonstration of an optical-label switching router with multicast and contention resolution at mixed data rates

Author

Pan, Zhong ; Yang, Haijun ; Zhu, Zuqing ; Yoo, S.J.B.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of California, Davis, CA, USA

Volume

18

Issue

2

fYear

2006

Firstpage

307

Lastpage

309

Abstract

This letter experimentally demonstrates a scalable optical-label switching router architecture that supports a limited multicast function. A semiconductor-optical-amplifier-based Mach-Zehnder interferometer wavelength converter performs multiwavelength conversion for multicast at 10 Gb/s by cross-phase modulation. With a 2.5-Gb/s unicast channel, the experiment also demonstrates contention resolution in the wavelength domain at mixed data rates.

Keywords

Mach-Zehnder interferometers; multicast communication; optical modulation; optical switches; optical wavelength conversion; packet switching; phase modulation; semiconductor optical amplifiers; telecommunication channels; telecommunication network routing; Mach-Zehnder interferometer; contention resolution; cross-phase modulation; multicast; multiwavelength conversion; optical-label switching router; semiconductor-optical-amplifier; unicast channel; Arrayed waveguide gratings; Nonlinear optics; Optical fiber polarization; Optical interferometry; Optical modulation; Optical packet switching; Optical wavelength conversion; Payloads; Unicast; Wavelength conversion; Contention resolution; multicast; optical packet switching; optical-label switching (OLS);

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2005.862003

Filename

1564137