Journal article
160-Gb/s Silicon All-Optical Packet Switch for Buffer-less Optical Burst Switching
Department of Photonics Engineering, Technical University of Denmark1
Ultra-fast Optical Communication, Department of Photonics Engineering, Technical University of Denmark2
Nanophotonic Devices, Department of Photonics Engineering, Technical University of Denmark3
Centre of Excellence for Silicon Photonics for Optical Communications, Centers, Technical University of Denmark4
We experimentally demonstrate a 160-Gb/s Ethernet packet switch using an 8.6-mm-long silicon nanowire for optical burst switching, based on cross phase modulation in silicon. One of the four packets at the bit rate of 160 Gb/s is switched by an optical control signal using a silicon based 1 × 1 all-optical packet switch.
Error free performance (BER <1E-9) is achieved for the switched packet. The use of optical burst switching protocols could eliminate the need for optical buffering in silicon packet switch based optical burst switching, which might be desirable for high-speed interconnects within a short-reach and small-scale network, such as board-to-board interconnects, chip-to-chip interconnects, and on-chip interconnects.
| Language: | English |
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| Publisher: | IEEE |
| Year: | 2015 |
| Pages: | 843-848 |
| ISSN: | 15582213 and 07338724 |
| Types: | Journal article |
| DOI: | 10.1109/JLT.2014.2372337 |
| ORCIDs: | Hu, Hao , Pu, Minhao , Galili, Michael , Yvind, Kresten and Oxenløwe, Leif Katsuo |
All-optical signal processing Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies Cross phase modulation Ethernet packet switch Integrated circuit interconnects Modulation Nanowires Optical burst switching Optical burst switching (OBS) Optical filters Optical packet switching Optical signal processing Optical switches Optical time division multiplexing Optical time division multiplexing (OTDM) Packet networks Packet switching Phase modulation Photonic Switching Photonics Photonics and Electrooptics Si Si(role el) Si(role int) Signal processing Silicon Silicon photonics Switching Time division multiplexing all-optical signal processing bit rate 1.6E+11 bit/s bit rate 160 Gbit/s buffer-less optical burst switching cross phase modulation elemental semiconductors error free performance high-speed interconnects local area networks nanowires optical buffering optical burst switching optical burst switching (OBS) optical control signal optical information processing optical interconnections optical packet switching (OPS) optical time division multiplexing (OTDM) packet switching photonic switching short-reach network silicon silicon all-optical packet switch silicon nanowire silicon photonics size 8.6 mm size 8.6E-03 m small-scale network
