TY - JOUR
T1 - Header separation and reinsertion for 10-Gbit/s variable-length optical packets
AU - Hatziefremidis, Antonios
AU - Kehayas, Efstratios
AU - Tsiokos, Dimitris
AU - Kanellos, George Theodore
AU - Stampoulidis, Leontios
AU - Avramopoulos, Hercules
PY - 2005/3/1
Y1 - 2005/3/1
N2 - We report an all-optical module that performs simultaneous header separation and reinsertion in 10-Gbit/s short optical packets of variable payload length and that consists of two subunits. The first uses a Fabry-Perot filter and an ultrafast nonlinear interferometer (UNI) to perform packet clock recovery. The second is a UNI gate configured as a 2 × 2 exchange bypass switch that is optically controlled by the recovered clock packets. Using fixed delays, the data packets and the locally generated headers are fed into the 2 × 2 switch, where header replacement is achieved.
AB - We report an all-optical module that performs simultaneous header separation and reinsertion in 10-Gbit/s short optical packets of variable payload length and that consists of two subunits. The first uses a Fabry-Perot filter and an ultrafast nonlinear interferometer (UNI) to perform packet clock recovery. The second is a UNI gate configured as a 2 × 2 exchange bypass switch that is optically controlled by the recovered clock packets. Using fixed delays, the data packets and the locally generated headers are fed into the 2 × 2 switch, where header replacement is achieved.
KW - Address extraction
KW - All-optical clock recovery
KW - Exchange-bypass switch
KW - Optical packet switching
KW - Optical routing
KW - Ultrafast nonlinear interferometer (UNI)
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U2 - 10.1117/1.1872052
DO - 10.1117/1.1872052
M3 - Article (Academic Journal)
AN - SCOPUS:24744457716
SN - 0091-3286
VL - 44
SP - 1
EP - 4
JO - Optical Engineering
JF - Optical Engineering
IS - 3
ER -