All-optical nonlinear and bistable units for dynamic data routing in fiber optical networks

摘要

Design of functional modules of optically reconfigurable routing unit for fiber optical networks is proposed. The peculiarity of these devices consists in realization of optical data transport by means of transverse switching waves in bistable layer. The modules allow to develop gateway units with channel and packet routing of information flows at data rate of ～40 Gb/s and can be scaled up to systems with a higher throughput due to technology of wavelength division multiplexing (WDM/DWDM).