PHOTONIC PACKET SWITCH USING SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIER GATES

被引:30
作者
FORTENBERRY, R
LOWERY, AJ
HA, WL
TUCKER, RS
机构
[1] Photonics Research Laboratory, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Melbourne, Parkville
关键词
DIGITAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; OPTICAL SWITCHING; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;
D O I
10.1049/el:19910816
中图分类号
TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];
学科分类号
0808 ; 0809 ;
摘要
Photonic packet switching using semiconductor optical amplifiers is reported. The optical amplifiers are used as gates to switch the optical packets and also as modulators to provide address header replacement. This eliminates the need for the fibre delay line used in previous photonic packet switching demonstrations, and allows the possibility of packet switch integration onto a single substrate. The photonic packet switch has a crosstalk performance better than 40 dB.
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页码:1305 / 1307
页数:3
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