Reconfigurable optical packet header recognition and routing using time-to-wavelength mapping and tunable fiber Bragg gratings for correlation decoding

Authors
Cardakli, MC Lee, S Willner, AE Grubsky, V Starodubov, D Feinberg, J
Citation
Mc. Cardakli et al., Reconfigurable optical packet header recognition and routing using time-to-wavelength mapping and tunable fiber Bragg gratings for correlation decoding, IEEE PHOTON, 12(5), 2000, pp. 552-554
Citations number
9
Categorie Soggetti
Apllied Physucs/Condensed Matter/Materiales Science
Journal title
IEEE PHOTONICS TECHNOLOGY LETTERS
ISSN journal
10411135 → ACNP
Volume
12
Issue
5
Year of publication
2000
Pages
552 - 554
Database
ISI
SICI code
1041-1135(200005)12:5<552:ROPHRA>2.0.ZU;2-H
Abstract
We achieve reconfigurable optical header recognition and penalty-free routi ng of a 2.5 Gb/s packet stream with a 1.6-ns guard time. Our method uses cr oss-gain compression in a semiconductor optical amplifier for time-to-wavel ength mapping, and two fiber Bragg grating arrays for tunable correlation d ecoding. This technique may be of value in future high-speed optical packet -switching nodes.