All-optical serial header processing based on two-pulse correlation |
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| Authors: | Srivatsa A de Waardt H Hill MT Khoe GD Dorren HJS |
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| Affiliation: | Dept. of Electr. Eng., Eindhoven Univ. of Technol. ; |
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| Abstract: | An all-optical serial header processor is demonstrated using a semiconductor laser amplifier in a loop mirror configuration (SLALOM). The operation of the header processor is discussed and it is experimentally demonstrated with a 10 Gbit/s Manchester encoded (information rate of 5 Gbit/s) packet stream. The operation of the header processor is based on the correlation function of the SLALOM. The header processor can be utilised in devising all-optical packet switches |
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