Design and Performance Evaluation of Optical Ethernet Switching Architecture with Liquid Crystal on Silicon-Based Beam-Steering Technology

作者：Cheng Yuh Jiuh; Chou H H^*; Shiau Yhi; Cheng Shu Ying

来源：Fiber and Integrated Optics, 2016, 35(4): 140-160.

DOI：10.1080/01468030.2016.1149635

• Liquid crystal on silicon
• optical Ethernet switch
• optical output buffer
• tunable fiber delay line

A non-blocking optical Ethernet switching architecture with liquid crystal on a silicon-based beam-steering switch and optical output buffer strategies are proposed. For preserving service packet sequencing and fairness of routing sequence, priority and round-robin algorithms are adopted at the optical output buffer in this research. Four methods were used to implement tunable fiber delay modules for the optical output buffers to handle Ethernet packets with variable bit-rates. The results reported are based on the simulations performed to evaluate the proposed switching architecture with traffic analysis under a traffic model captured from a real-core network.

• 出版日期2016