Architecture for self-clocked self-routing photonic bit switching

Abstract

Optical signal processing will be widely used in future photonic switches, because it can remove the bottleneck at electrooptic interfaces and offer an ultrahigh throughput. Self-clocked self-routing photonic switching with optical pulse-interval time-division address encoding (OPI-TDAE) has been recently demonstrated, which is useful to build broadband communication networks. In order to effectively implement photonic bit switching with OPI-TDAE, a modified architecture is presented in this paper. It is based on the two-wavelength scheme. >