160-Gb/s Silicon All-Optical Packet Switch for Buffer-less Optical Burst Switching

Hao Hu; Hua Ji; Minhao Pu; Michael Galili; Kresten Yvind; Leif Katsuo Oxenløwe

doi:10.1109/JLT.2014.2372337

160-Gb/s Silicon All-Optical Packet Switch for Buffer-less Optical Burst Switching

Hao Hu, Hua Ji, Minhao Pu, Michael Galili, Kresten Yvind, Leif Katsuo Oxenløwe

Centre of Excellence for Silicon Photonics for Optical Communications

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We experimentally demonstrate a 160-Gb/s Ethernet packet switch using an 8.6-mm-long silicon nanowire for optical burst switching, based on cross phase modulation in silicon. One of the four packets at the bit rate of 160 Gb/s is switched by an optical control signal using a silicon based 1 × 1 all-optical packet switch. Error free performance (BER <1E-9) is achieved for the switched packet. The use of optical burst switching protocols could eliminate the need for optical buffering in silicon packet switch based optical burst switching, which might be desirable for high-speed interconnects within a short-reach and small-scale network, such as board-to-board interconnects, chip-to-chip interconnects, and on-chip interconnects.

Original language	English
Journal	Journal of Lightwave Technology
Volume	33
Issue number	4
Pages (from-to)	843-848
ISSN	0733-8724
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/JLT.2014.2372337
Publication status	Published - 2015

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Keywords

elemental semiconductors
local area networks
nanowires
optical burst switching
optical information processing
optical interconnections
packet switching
silicon
Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Photonics and Electrooptics
bit rate 1.6E+11 bit/s
size 8.6E-03 m
All-optical signal processing
bit rate 160 Gbit/s
buffer-less optical burst switching
cross phase modulation
error free performance
Ethernet packet switch
high-speed interconnects
Modulation
optical buffering
optical burst switching (OBS)
optical control signal
Optical filters
Optical packet switching
optical packet switching (OPS)
Optical switches
optical time division multiplexing (OTDM)
photonic switching
short-reach network
Si
Si(role el)
Si(role int)
Silicon
silicon all-optical packet switch
silicon nanowire
silicon photonics
size 8.6 mm
small-scale network
all-optical signal processing
Optical burst switching (OBS)
Optical time division multiplexing (OTDM)
Silicon photonics
Integrated circuit interconnects
Nanowires
Optical signal processing
Packet networks
Packet switching
Phase modulation
Photonics
Signal processing
Switching
Time division multiplexing
Cross phase modulation
Optical time division multiplexing
Photonic Switching
Optical burst switching

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SiMOF: CMOS-Compatible Silicon-Based Micro-Ring Resonator for On-Chip Optical Frequency Comb Generation (SiMOF)
Pu, M. (Project Manager), Yvind, K. (Project Participant) & Peucheret, C. (Project Participant)
01/01/2012 → 30/09/2015
Project: Research

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