TY - JOUR
T1 - 40-Gbit/s 16-bit burst optical packet generator based on photonic parallel-to-serial conversion
AU - Takenouchi, Hirokazu
AU - Takahata, Kiyoto
AU - Nakahara, Tatsushi
AU - Takahashi, Ryo
AU - Suzuki, Hiroyuki
PY - 2004/5
Y1 - 2004/5
N2 - We propose a burst optical packet generator based on a novel photonic parallel-to-serial conversion scheme, and demonstrate 40-Gbit/s 16-bit optical packet generation from 16-ch parallel low-voltage TTL data streams. It consists of electrical 4:1 parallel-to-serial converters that employ InP metal-semiconductor-metal photodetectors, and an optical time-domain multiplexer with electroabsorption modulators. The proposed optical packet generator is suitable for burst optical packet generation and overcomes the electronic bandwidth limitation, which is prerequisite for achieving high-speed photonic packet switched networks. In addition, it can be driven by simple low-cost low-power CMOS logic circuits, and is compact and extensible in terms of the number of input channels due to the effective combination of electrical and optical multiplexing.
AB - We propose a burst optical packet generator based on a novel photonic parallel-to-serial conversion scheme, and demonstrate 40-Gbit/s 16-bit optical packet generation from 16-ch parallel low-voltage TTL data streams. It consists of electrical 4:1 parallel-to-serial converters that employ InP metal-semiconductor-metal photodetectors, and an optical time-domain multiplexer with electroabsorption modulators. The proposed optical packet generator is suitable for burst optical packet generation and overcomes the electronic bandwidth limitation, which is prerequisite for achieving high-speed photonic packet switched networks. In addition, it can be driven by simple low-cost low-power CMOS logic circuits, and is compact and extensible in terms of the number of input channels due to the effective combination of electrical and optical multiplexing.
KW - Metal-semiconductor-metal photodetector
KW - Optical packet generation
KW - Packet-switched network
KW - Parallel-to-serial conversion
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M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:2642553970
VL - E87-C
SP - 825
EP - 827
JO - IEICE Transactions on Electronics
JF - IEICE Transactions on Electronics
SN - 0916-8524
IS - 5
ER -