Abstract

A new switching network architecture, called the Dilated Slipped Banyan Network(DSBN), is proposed for the hub of a photonic active-star Local Area Network (LAN). A lithium niobate implementation of a classical 4-by-4 banyan architecture was proposed^[1]: for bit-interleaved time-multiplexing. The DSBN has properties, described herein, that make it more general in size and more amenable to lithium niobate implementation than the classical banyan. Furthermore, since the active-star LAN application could use a word-interleaved data format instead of a bit-interleaved format, the hub switch need not be bit-synchronous with the data.

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