One of the keys to the future of telecommunications companies will be their ability to provide ne... more One of the keys to the future of telecommunications companies will be their ability to provide new broadband services to both the business community and residential customers. With the new services will come the need for the equivalent of a broadband switching office. Such a system could require the capability of supporting in excess of 10000 users with broadband channel bit rates exceeding 100 Mb/s. This implies a switching fabric the aggregate bit rate of which could be greater than 1 Tb/s. Guided-wave technology and free-space technology switching fabrics are discussed. Three time-division-based switching fabrics are proposed, and two wavelength-division-based switching fabrics and two multidivision fabrics are described. The fine-grain space-division fabrics associated with S-SEED devices are discussed. The ways in which 2-D optoelectronic integrated circuits (2D-OEICs) or smart pixels could be used as the building blocks for larger and more complex switching fabrics are described.
The design of a terabit free-space photonic backplane for parallel computing and communications i... more The design of a terabit free-space photonic backplane for parallel computing and communications is described. The backplane consists of a large number of parallel reconfigurable optical channels spaced a few hundred microns apart. The parallel channels are organized as a unidirectional ring and the channel access protocols are implemented by smart pixel arrays. Smart pixel arrays are integrated optoelectronic devices
The papers in this book stem from the Third Topical Meeting on Photonic Switching organized by th... more The papers in this book stem from the Third Topical Meeting on Photonic Switching organized by the Optical Society of America and held in Salt Lake City in March of 1991. The papers in this book consist of extended and enhanced submissions from authors who participated in the meeting. The papers have been grouped into eight sections: Space-Division Switching (guided-wave), Space-Division Switching (freespace), Time-Division Switching, Wavelength-Division Switching, Multi-Divisional Switching, Logic and Control, Optical Interconnection, and Novel Devices. Finally, the papers contained within this volume represent the leading edge of research in photonic switching, therefore, the reader should gain a reasonably balanced overview of the current state of photonic switching.
In response to the increasing interest in developing photonic switching fabrics, this book gives ... more In response to the increasing interest in developing photonic switching fabrics, this book gives an overview of the many technologies from a systems designer's perspective. Optically transparent devices, optical logic devices, and optical hardware are all discussed in detail and set ...
One of the keys to the future of telecommunications companies will be their ability to provide ne... more One of the keys to the future of telecommunications companies will be their ability to provide new broadband services to both the business community and residential customers. With the new services will come the need for the equivalent of a broadband switching office. Such a system could require the capability of supporting in excess of 10000 users with broadband channel bit rates exceeding 100 Mb/s. This implies a switching fabric the aggregate bit rate of which could be greater than 1 Tb/s. Guided-wave technology and free-space technology switching fabrics are discussed. Three time-division-based switching fabrics are proposed, and two wavelength-division-based switching fabrics and two multidivision fabrics are described. The fine-grain space-division fabrics associated with S-SEED devices are discussed. The ways in which 2-D optoelectronic integrated circuits (2D-OEICs) or smart pixels could be used as the building blocks for larger and more complex switching fabrics are described.
The design of a terabit free-space photonic backplane for parallel computing and communications i... more The design of a terabit free-space photonic backplane for parallel computing and communications is described. The backplane consists of a large number of parallel reconfigurable optical channels spaced a few hundred microns apart. The parallel channels are organized as a unidirectional ring and the channel access protocols are implemented by smart pixel arrays. Smart pixel arrays are integrated optoelectronic devices
The papers in this book stem from the Third Topical Meeting on Photonic Switching organized by th... more The papers in this book stem from the Third Topical Meeting on Photonic Switching organized by the Optical Society of America and held in Salt Lake City in March of 1991. The papers in this book consist of extended and enhanced submissions from authors who participated in the meeting. The papers have been grouped into eight sections: Space-Division Switching (guided-wave), Space-Division Switching (freespace), Time-Division Switching, Wavelength-Division Switching, Multi-Divisional Switching, Logic and Control, Optical Interconnection, and Novel Devices. Finally, the papers contained within this volume represent the leading edge of research in photonic switching, therefore, the reader should gain a reasonably balanced overview of the current state of photonic switching.
In response to the increasing interest in developing photonic switching fabrics, this book gives ... more In response to the increasing interest in developing photonic switching fabrics, this book gives an overview of the many technologies from a systems designer's perspective. Optically transparent devices, optical logic devices, and optical hardware are all discussed in detail and set ...
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