Calabretta, N Contestabile, G Kim, SH Lee, SB Ciaramella, E 2024-01-21T03:43:41Z 2024-01-21T03:43:41Z 2021-09-02 2006-01 1041-1135 https://pubs.kist.re.kr/handle/201004/135867 We propose a novel asynchronous all-optical header processor based on time-to-wavelength conversion. It always requires only four optical functional blocks, i.e., the whole complexity does not linearly scale with the number of possible headers. The scheme is experimentally demonstrated at 10.9 Gb/s and four different headers are distinguished at four distinct outputs. The limited amount of switches (four), the low optical power operation, and the potential photonic integration of each switch in a single chip make the system highly scalable and, therefore, suitable for devising an all-optical packet switch. English IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC HEADER PROCESSOR SOA CONVERTER SWITCH Exploiting time-to-wavelength conversion for all-optical label processing Article 10.1109/LPT.2005.863207 1 IEEE PHOTONICS TECHNOLOGY LETTERS, v.18, no.1-4, pp.436 - 438 IEEE PHOTONICS TECHNOLOGY LETTERS 18 1-4 436 438 scie scopus 000235899300144 2-s2.0-34548163787 Engineering, Electrical & Electronic Optics Physics, Applied Engineering Optics Physics Article HEADER PROCESSOR SOA CONVERTER SWITCH header processor nonlinear polarization rotation (NPR) optical packet switching (OPS) self-synchronization wavelength conversion