This paper demonstrates the design of an Arrayed Waveguide Gratings (AWG) based optical switch. In the design both physical and network layer analysis is performed. The physical layer power and noise analysis is done to obtain Bit Error Rate (BER). This has been found that at the higher bit rates, BER is not affected with number of buffer modules. Network layer analysis is done to obtain perfor...

The paper describes research progress in technologies and architectures that give hope to deliver truly transparent switching of optical packets. The importance of all-optical packet switching/routing for convergent next generation transport network and in particularly, for QoS packet transfer in core of future generation wireless networks is pointed out. Generic photonic packet switch/router a...

Packet contention is a key issue in optical packet switch (OPS) networks and finds a viable solution by including optical buffering techniques incorporating fiber delay lines (FDLs) in the switch architecture. The present paper proposes a novel switch architecture for packet contention resolution in synchronous OPS network employing the packet circulation in FDLs in a synchronized manner. A mat...

This paper proposes a new switching architecture to be used in all optical packet switching networks. The proposed switch is derived from an original 2 × 2 two-stage multi-buffer switched delay line based optical switching node, known as an M-Quadro node. By incorporating bypass lines into the M-Quadro architecture and employing a novel switch control strategy, the optical packet switching node...

We present a 1 2 all-optical packet switch. All the processing of the header information is carried out in the optical domain. The optical headers are recognized by employing the two-pulse correlation principle in a semiconductor laser amplifier in loop optical mirror (SLALOM) configuration. The processed header information is stored in an optical flip-flop memory that is based on a symmetric c...

In this paper we investigate the performance of an Optical Code Division Multiplexing/Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM/OCDM) Optical Packet Switch when impairment due to both Multiple Access Interference and Beat noise are taken into account. Analytical models are introduced to dimension the switch resources, in particular the number of optical codes carried on each wavelength. The Packet ...

Hybrid electro-optical packet switches utilize optics in the backplane to switch optical packets from inputs to outputs on electronic line cards. The optical packets are traditionally considerably larger than minimum size IP packets. IP packets entering the switch must be formatted (segmented) and encapsulated in the optical packet format. This process is called packetisation or aggregation. Th...