树型结构半导体光放大器光交换矩阵的可靠性(英文)

针对光交换系统的可靠性研究已卓有成效,但作为光交换系统的核心元件——光交换矩阵的可靠性却始终没有得到足够的重视.本文利用可靠性框图对基于半导体光放大器的树型结构光交换矩阵进行了可用性分析.分析结果表明该型光交换矩阵在可靠性上存在的不足,需要设计保护结构.通过对已有的光交换系统可靠性研究工作的分析总结,提出了两种针对树型结构光交换矩阵的保护结构,并利用可靠性框图和概率统计方法对其进行比较分析了两种结构的特点.研究表明,交换矩阵对于SOA的可靠性最为敏感.交换矩阵保护结构的设计过程,实际上是系统可靠性、成本、体积及性能的折衷.因其对成本和可靠性的影响,能否提供有效的检测和维护也应在保护结构的设计过程中予以考虑.     

Seamlessly transformable hybrid packet and circuit switching for efficient optical networks

Efforts in realizing all-optical packet switching are overwhelming in the past decade. While optical packet switching remains an attractive switching paradigm in the long run, technical challenges prohibit it from becoming a practical solution for the ever-growing bandwidth hunger during the next few years. Finding a technically viable way to meet the increasing capacity requirement with good scalability and flexibility becomes a clear pursue for the community. Hybrid packet and circuit switching is considered to be one promising technique in realizing high performance switching at low cost and less energy consumption, by taking the advantage of both packet switching and circuit switching. In this paper, we review existing work in hybrid optical packet and circuit switching. We discuss the key technical challenges in realizing hybrid optical packet and circuit switching. We further introduce our ongoing efforts in building a seamlessly transformable packet/circuit-switching node with hybrid optical and electronic components. We show that in a hybrid node, the scheduling complexity with typical scheduling algorithms may be reduced to half of a node running in full packet switching mode.     

All-optical reconfigurable multi-logic gates based on nonlinear polarization rotation effect in a single SOA

We demonstrate an all-optical reconfigurable logic gate based on dominant nonlinear polarization rotation accompanied with cross-gain modulation effect in a single semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA).Five logic functions,including NOT,OR,NOR,AND,and NAND,are realized using 10-Gb/s on-off keying signals with flexible wavelength tunability.The operation principle is explained in detail.By adjusting polarization controllers,multiple logic functions corresponding to different input polarization states are separately achieved using a single SOA with high flexibility.