Performances of all optical logical gates for packet forwarding

• Published in: 2016 18th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON) pp. 1 - 4
• Main Authors: Farhat, Rim, Farhat, Amel, Menif, Mourad
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 01.07.2016
• Subjects: Adaptive optics; feedback loop; flip flop; Integrated optics; Logic gates; optical AND gate; Optical feedback; Optical interferometry; Optical packet switching; Optical signal processing; optical XOR gate; packet forwarding; SOA-MZI

This paper presents an all optical packet forwarding architecture composed of two optical logical gates namely the XOR gate and the AND gate. Error free operation is achieved at 160 Gbps for the AND logic gate as well as the forwarding architecture. And clear eyes diagrams are obtained.