A High Speed Optical Radix Sorter.

Abstract

We discuss the design of an optical radix sorter capable of multiple channel operation at 100 Gb/s on each of about 16 channels, for an aggregate rate of about 1.6 Tb/s. The high bit rate is obtained by partitioning the problem into a minimal amount of single bit switching and confining switching to packets consisting of full words in the rest of the system. A high speed optical gate called a TOAD is suitable for the bit rate switching, and lower speed, electro-optic directional couplers are used to temporally and spatially rearrange packets. The sorting logic has been verified by constructing a low speed version that uses directional couplers for both bit rate and packet rate logic.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 1996
Accession Number
ADA315778

Entities

People

  • Coke Reed
  • Harry F. Jordan
  • Jon R. Sauer
  • Kyungsook Y. Lee
  • Rajgopal Kannan

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Algorithms
  • Amplifiers
  • Amplitude
  • Computer Science
  • Computers
  • Computing System Architectures
  • Data Sets
  • Delay Lines
  • Detectors
  • Directional
  • Engineering
  • Multiplexing
  • Optical Switching
  • Refractive Index
  • Sampling
  • Switches
  • Switching

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

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