All-optical add-drop node for optical packet-switched networks

P K A Wai; Lixin Xu; L F K Lui; L Y Chan; C C Lee; H Y Tam; M S Demokan

doi:10.1364/ol.30.001515

All-optical add-drop node for optical packet-switched networks

Opt Lett. 2005 Jun 15;30(12):1515-7. doi: 10.1364/ol.30.001515.

Authors

P K A Wai¹, Lixin Xu, L F K Lui, L Y Chan, C C Lee, H Y Tam, M S Demokan

Affiliation

¹ Photonics Research Centre and Department of Electronic and Information Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China. enwai@polyu.edu.hk

PMID: 16007792
DOI: 10.1364/ol.30.001515

Abstract

We have demonstrated all-optical packet add-drop for all-optical packet-switched networks. Intelligent all-optical add-drop of packets is performed, based on all-optical processing of packet headers. The header and payload rates are 5 and 10 Gbits/s, respectively.