Demonstration of a 100 GBIT/S (GBPS) Scalable Optical Multiprocessor Interconnect System Using Optical Time Division Multiplexing.

摘要

Theoretical and an experimental demonstration of an error free 100 Gbit/s optical time division multiplexing (ODM) broadcast star computer interconnect has been performed. A highly scalable novel node design provides rapid inter-channel switching capability on the order of the single channel bit period (1.6 ns). The scalability for optical multichannel networks and interconnects is an important design issue to accommodate an ever growing number of users. It is therefore important that the channel selector at each node should be scalable to a large number of channels. We performed an analysis of a 1024-channel TDM channel selector which can be rapidly reconfigured to access any channel in a high speed OTDM system. We demonstrated that optical TDM technology based on a rapid channel tuner and fast demultiplexer has the potential to enable the construction of high performance, highly scalable and high bandwidth interconnects with crosstalk requirement of -30dB. To unable DWDM-OTDM interfacing between our OTDM interconnect and DWDM Network we proposed and demonstrated an all-optical format converter. This converter is an all- optical interferometric device based on non linear Sagnac loop with a semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) inside.