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Advanced photonic routing sub-systems with efficient routing control


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Conference Object

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Authors

White, IH 
Ding, M 
Penty, RV 

Abstract

In recent years, there has been much interest in the development of optical switches which can route optical signals from different input guides to different outputs based on thermo-optic and electro-optic technologies. Such switches, which can be reconfigured on millisecond and microsecond timescales, have already attracted commercial interest. However switches which are able to reconfigure on the nanosecond timescales required for packet switching have been more challenging and only in recent years, have router concepts been devised to allow lossless routers to be constructed able to switch on nanosecond timescales with more than 16×16 ports. This paper will therefore review the advances that have occurred to allow such operation and then describe recent studies that have begun to determine the electronic control and functionality required to enable full and practical operation of such switches in high performance networks.

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Keywords

optical switching, packet switches, photonic integrated circuits, routing algorithm

Journal Title

International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks

Conference Name

2015 17th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON)

Journal ISSN

2162-7339
2162-7339

Volume Title

Publisher

IEEE
Sponsorship
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EP/H022384/1)
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EP/K018116/1)
EPSRC (via University of York) (EP/M013472/1)
European Commission (257210)
This research has received funding from the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council through the INTERNET Project, STAR and COPOS II grants and the European Commission under FP7 grant agreement ICT 257210 PARADIGM.