Demonstration and network scalability analysis of 8-fiber-delay-line SOA-based optical buffer embedded optical packet switching

We demonstrated an 8-fiber-delay-line optical buffer with SOA switches for forwarding 100 Gbit/s IP-packet-encapsulated optical packets. We derived the maximum number of node hops under error-free operation when buffer scale is increased up to 32 FDLs.

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