Multi-function all optical packet switch by periodic wavelength arrangement in an arrayed waveguide grating and wideband optical filters

作者：Feng Kai Ming^*; Wu Chung Yu; Wen Yu Hsiang

来源：Optics Express, 2012, 20(2): 712-717.

DOI：10.1364/OE.20.000712

By utilizing the cyclic filtering function of an NxN arrayed waveguide grating (AWG), we propose and experimentally demonstrate a novel multi-function all optical packet switching (OPS) architecture by applying a periodical wavelength arrangement between the AWG in the optical routing/buffering unit and a set of wideband optical filters in the switched output ports to achieve the desired routing and buffering functions. The proposed OPS employs only one tunable wavelength converter at the input port to convert the input wavelength to a designated wavelength which reduces the number of active optical components and thus the complexity of the traffic control is simplified in the OPS. With the proposed OPS architecture, multiple optical packet switching functions, including arbitrary packet switching and buffering, first-in-first-out (FIFO) packet multiplexing, packet demultiplexing and packet add/drop multiplexing, have been successfully demonstrated.

• 出版日期2012-1-16
• 单位清华大学