Ultrafast photonic ATM switch based on time-divisionbroadcast-and-select network

摘要

A description is presented of the hardware implementation and adesign example is given of an ultrafast photonic asynchronous transfermode (ATM) (ULPHA) switch. Experimental results are presented of thegeneration and the self-routing switching of ultrafast optical cells.For hardware implementation, new cell coder and buffer configurationsare proposed, and for the design example, it is shown that this switchcan achieve 102 Gb/s throughput. In addition, the generation of 16 bit,20 Gb/s optical cells and a demonstration of 4 bit, 20 Gb/s cellselection using a wavelength multiplexing technique are presented