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All Optical Switching Architectures

<p>In communication systems, the need for high bandwidth interconnects and</p><p>efficient distribution of large amount of data is very essential. This thesis work</p><p>addresses all-optical packet switching issues in the field of reconfigurable optical</p><p>interconnection networks for high performance embedded systems. The recent</p><p>research conducted at the Halmstad University, on high performance embedded</p><p>systems, focuses on the optical interconnection techniques to achieve ultra high</p><p>throughputs and reconfigurability at the system level.</p><p>Recent research in the field of optical interconnection networks for applications</p><p>like switches and routers for data and telecommunication industry and parallel</p><p>computing architectures for embedded signal processing use optical to electrical</p><p>conversion to switch packets. This conversion scales down the enormous bandwidth</p><p>capacity of the optical communication channels to electronic processing rates. To</p><p>maintain the high throughputs all over the interconnection networks, the optical</p><p>packets need to be maintained in optical state and switched to different part of the</p><p>interconnection network. To achieve this goal, all-optical packet switching</p><p>architectures are studied. The study is concluded with a positive outlook towards alloptical</p><p>switching technologies, and it will play a very important role in the near</p><p>future in the field of optical communication, telecommunication and embedded</p><p>systems.</p>

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA/oai:DiVA.org:hh-253
Date January 2006
CreatorsSathyan, Saju
PublisherHalmstad University, School of Information Science, Computer and Electrical Engineering (IDE), Högskolan i Halmstad/Sektionen för Informationsvetenskap, Data- och Elektroteknik (IDE)
Source SetsDiVA Archive at Upsalla University
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeStudent thesis, text

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