Abstract
The authors report the first demonstration of all-optical address recognition and self-routing of photonic packets for the case where the packet bit period is only 4ps, corresponding to a 0. 25Tbit/s bandwidth optical network. An ultrafast all-optical device, known as a terahertz optical asymmetric demultiplexer (TOAD), was used to read the address information encoded in a packet header, which in turn was used to route the packet. The bit error rate at the switch output was measured to be less than 10 −9.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 1322-1323 |
Number of pages | 2 |
Journal | Electronics Letters |
Volume | 30 |
Issue number | 16 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Aug 4 1994 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Keywords
- Demultiplexing
- Packet switching
- Photonic switching