Abstract
A passive shared media space-division photonic switching architecture with the potential for extremely high dimensionality is presented. The architecture, which resembles a collapsed network, eliminates the restrictions 2 × 2 switching elements impose in classical space-division switching architectures by providing a dedicated path for all input- and output-port connections on a common transmission medium. Switching between two input ports and three output ports of a space-division time-multiplexed photonic switch with 120 × 120 input/output port capacity was demonstrated. The aggregate throughput was 12 Gb/s.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1135-1139 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| Journal | Conference Record - International Conference on Communications |
| Volume | 3 |
| State | Published - 1990 |
| Event | IEEE International Conference on Communications - ICC '90 Part 3 (of 4) - Atlanta, GA, USA Duration: Apr 16 1990 → Apr 19 1990 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering
- Computer Networks and Communications