Abstract
Feature Issue on Optical Interconnection Networks (OIN). We present three
optical signal processing functional blocks that enable 1×N optical packet
switching. An ultrafast asynchronous multioutput all-optical header processor is
demonstrated with a terahertz optical asymmetric demultiplexer in combination with a
header preprocessor. It is shown that self-induced polarization rotation can be used
for both the header processor and the header preprocessor. The second functional
block is optical buffering. This is shown with both a laser neural network and a
recirculating buffer. Related to this is a three-state all-optical memory based on
coupled lasers, which increases the number of possible output states of an optical
packet switch.
© 2004 Optical Society of America
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