Optically-Processed Routing Control for Fast Packet Switches.

Abstract

It is well known that optical fibers possess enormous transmission bandwidth capacity (on the order of 10-20 THz). However, due to the limitations of electronic circuit bandwidths at the transmit and receive nodes, in order to fully utilize this bandwidth, a shared medium protocol must be employed. Optical shared medium protocols involve multiplexing techniques, such as time, wavelength, or space division or subcarrier multiplexing. In time division multiplexing, high speed routing and contention resolution are required. Such needs point to the development of optical gating devices to achieve this functionality. This work describes the requirements and implementation of new architectures and components for all optical interconnects approaching these terahertz bandwidth capacities. keywords: Optical fibers, Interconnects, Time division multiplex, Demultiplex, Architecture, Packet switch, Routing, Contention, deflection routing.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 1996
Accession Number
ADA310063

Entities

People

  • Paul Prucnal

Organizations

  • Princeton University

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Bandwidth
  • Circuits
  • Deflection
  • Electronic Circuits
  • Fibers
  • Multiplexing
  • Optical Fibers
  • Optical Interconnects
  • Time Division Multiplexing

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Computer Networking
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  • Radio communications and signal processing.

Technology Areas

  • Microelectronics
  • Space