Demonstration of an optical self-clocked time-division switch |
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| Authors: | Paul R. Prucnal Philippe A. Perrier Michel W. Chbat |
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| Affiliation: | Department of Electrical Engineering , Princeton University , Princeton, NJ, 08544 |
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| Abstract: | A novel architecture for an optical time-division switch is investigated and demonstrated at a bit rate of 625 Mbit/s. The self-clocked configuration eliminates some of the limitations found in previous optical implementations of time-division switches: the switch operation is asynchronous, no read gate is required, and an optimal number of delay lines is used. Furthermore, this paper reports the first experimental demonstration of optical space-sorting demultiplexing. |
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| Keywords: | optical networks protection SDH switching WDM technique |
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