Optical Packet Switching With Photonic Crystals: An Overview

Bilich, Carlos (2005) Optical Packet Switching With Photonic Crystals: An Overview. UNSPECIFIED.

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    Abstract

    All optical packet switching arises as the last research frontier of optical networking. It is desirable because of several reasons being the most important the necessity to eliminate the bottleneck that constitutes electro-optical conversion. Having all optical packet switching networks without electro-optical conversion is the way to go to provide the astonishing amounts of bandwidth requirements needed for a future network that will link people, places and objects. So far, somehow “traditional techniques” based on per-packet wavelength routing, deflection routing, optical burst switching, etc., have been proposed without much commercial success. Aside for these approaches based on smart architectures, there are others based on novel devices like molecular electronics and photonic bandgap materials among others. Of particular interest among bandgap periodic structures, are photonic crystals. This article describes their properties and how they can be used to build a photonic packet switch.

    Item Type: Departmental Technical Report
    Department or Research center: Information Engineering and Computer Science
    Subjects: Q Science > QC Physics (General) > QC350 Optics. Light
    Uncontrolled Keywords: all optical packet switching, photonic crystals, photonic bandgap structures, optical routing, optical data processing.
    Additional Information: This work was done as paper project for the Ph. D. course on “Satisfying QoS Requirements over Single Packet Switching Networks” held at the Department of Information and Communication Technology of the University of Trento, between March 29-April 15, 2005, corresponding to the academic year 2004/2005. Taught by Prof. Yoram Ofek, Marie Curie Chair Professor at Department of Information and Communication Technology of University of Trento.
    Report Number: DIT-06-058
    Repository staff approval on: 26 Sep 2006

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