TY - JOUR
T1 - Optical buffering up to 160 Gb/s employing a quantum dot semiconductor optical amplifier-based architecture
AU - Yiannopoulos, K.
AU - Spyropoulou, M.
AU - Sygletos, S.
AU - Varvarigos, E.
AU - Tomkos, I.
PY - 2011/2/1
Y1 - 2011/2/1
N2 - The authors demonstrate an optical buffer architecture which is implemented using quantum dot semiconductor optical amplifiers (QD-SOAs) in order to achieve wavelength conversion with regenerative capabilities, for all optical packet switched networks. The architecture consists of cascaded programmable delay stages that minimise the number of wavelength converters required to implement the buffer. Physical layer simulations have been performed in order to reveal the potential of this scheme as well as the operating and device parameters of QD-SOA-based wavelength converters. The results obtained have indicated that, up to three time-slot interchanger (TSI) cascaded stages show good performance at 160 Gb/s in the 1550 nm communication window.
AB - The authors demonstrate an optical buffer architecture which is implemented using quantum dot semiconductor optical amplifiers (QD-SOAs) in order to achieve wavelength conversion with regenerative capabilities, for all optical packet switched networks. The architecture consists of cascaded programmable delay stages that minimise the number of wavelength converters required to implement the buffer. Physical layer simulations have been performed in order to reveal the potential of this scheme as well as the operating and device parameters of QD-SOA-based wavelength converters. The results obtained have indicated that, up to three time-slot interchanger (TSI) cascaded stages show good performance at 160 Gb/s in the 1550 nm communication window.
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UR - https://digital-library.theiet.org/content/journals/10.1049/iet-opt.2009.0057
U2 - 10.1049/iet-opt.2009.0057
DO - 10.1049/iet-opt.2009.0057
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:80053064695
SN - 1751-8768
VL - 5
SP - 50
EP - 56
JO - IEE Proceedings Optoelectronics
JF - IEE Proceedings Optoelectronics
IS - 1
ER -