Investigation on performance of all optical buffer with large dynamical delay time based on cascaded double loop optical buffers

Optical buffers are critical for optical signal processing in future optical packet-switched networks. In this paper, a theoretical study as well as an experimental demonstration on a new optical buffer with large dynamical delay time is carried out based on cascaded double loop optical buffers （I：）LOBs）. It is found that pulse distortion can be restrained by a negative optical control mode when the optical packet is in the loop. Noise analysis indicates that it is feasible to realise a large variable delay range by cascaded DLOBs. These conclusions are validated by the experiment system with 4-stage cascaded DLOBs. Both the theoretical simulations and the experimental results indicate that a large delay range of 1-9999 times the basic delay unit and a fine granularity of 25 ns can be achieved by the cascaded DLOBs. The performance of the cascaded DLOBs is suitable for the all optical networks.

A new Structure of Optical Buffer and 2×622MB/S ATM Photonic Switching System

A new structure of optical buffer for resolving ATM cell contention is presented in this paper. It is composed of fiber delay lines, optical waveguide switching array and nonlinear semiconductor optical amplifier. Also, an experimental system for switching ATM cells formed by data at different transmission rates (up to 622MB/s) from different users is reported. The throughput of this system is 1.2Gb/s.

Analysis of influence of RF power and buffer gas pressure on sensitivity of optically pumped cesium magnetometer

A further study is conducted on two factors which respectively influence the sensitivity of optically pumped cesium magnetometer （CsOPM）. The influence of radio frequency （RF） power and the buffer gas pressure on the sensitivity is theoretically analyzed, and some properties are predicted. Based on the established measurement system and the visible Zeeman spectrum, not only is the real influence of these factors studied, but also, under our experimental condition, optimum parameters based on the measured curves are ascertained. The properties of these measured curves match the theoretical result very well. Our research attempts to provide theory reference to help magnetometer designers determine optimum parameters under certain conditions.

Large-capacity and low-loss integrated optical buffer

Trapping light in a photonic integrated circuit can findmany applications, such as optical storage, optical-packetswitching, optical sensing and microwave photonics. Althoughthere are many ways to implement an integrated opticalbuffer, such as the use of ring resonators, photonic crystals,Bragg gratings and spiral waveguides, it is still challenging torealize optical buffers with long storage time and low loss.Photonic integrated circuits with small size are of interest forimplementing optical buffers. In general, three materials systemsare employed to implement integrated optical buffers, silicon,silicon nitride and indium phosphide. However, it is hardto implement optical buffers with a storage time over tens ofnanoseconds due to the intrinsic high loss of these materials.

Limited Delay Preemption Based Priority in Differentiated Optical Burst Switching Networks with Small Buffers

The composite scheme based on preemption and small buffers is an efficient method for contention resolution. To support services differentiation, it is the first time that the analytical model of delay preemption based priority is built. Further, in order to guarantee the low-loss requirement for high priority bursts, an improved scheme is proposed and investigated by limiting the buffered right of low priority bursts within the specific traffic states. The simulation results show that, without the deterioration of blocking performance, there is more than 40% reduction on burst loss being achieved under the conditionρ=1.0 for high priority bursts.

An all-optical buffer based on polarization rotation in an EAM

A theoretical model of the refractive index changes of the TE and TM modes in an electro-absorption modulator （EAM） is deduced. The photon absorption and refractive index changes are analyzed numerically. The influence of pump intensity on the phase difference between the TE and TM modes is studied. The polarization rotation effect is obtained in the EAM, and a novel all-optical fiber loop buffer is designed.

Study of Crosstalk Property in an Optical Packet Switching Node

The effect of queuing delay of output buffer on the crosstalk property in optical packet switching nodes is investigated. The relationship between crosstalk and buffer length is obtained. From the calculation and simulation results, it is concluded that the crosstalk power penalty predominantly depends on the buffer length, the longer the buffer, the greater the penalty, as well as the random range of the penalty. While comparing with the effect of queuing delay, the effect of random routing path delay takes very little proportion in the total power penalty.

Simulation of the Physical Performance of Optical Packet Switching Nodes

A graphical and visual simulation system for the study of optical packet switching (OPS) nodes is accomplished. With the simulation system, the effect on physical performance-bit error rate (BER) due to a variety of factors such as the crosstalk parameters of OPS nodes, number of cascaded OPS nodes, length of optical output buffer, traffic load and fluctuation of amplitude of optical signals are evaluated. Reliability of the simulation system is proved by the analytical results obtained in all the above cases.

All optical wavelength converter and its application in optical network

All optical network （AON） is a hot topic in recent studies of optical fiber communications. Key techniques in AON include optical switching/routing, optical cross connection （OXC）, all optical wavelength conversion （AOWC）, all optical buffering, etc. Opti- cal switching/routing is in fact wavelength switching/ routing. OXC and wavelength conversion （WC） are introduced into cross nodes so that a virtual wavelength path is established. With WC, communication route is formed only if there is unused wavelength in an individual segment link. The rate wavelength usage is thus greatly increased. The blocking rate of network can be reduced by adding WCs, especially for huge capacity multiple nodes ones. Therefore, WC has attracted much attention in basic research of optical communication and is used in some experimental networks.This dissertation studies all optic wavelength conversion and its application, with the contributions in the following five aspects.

A Comparison and Performance of Different Optical Switching Architectures

Optical Packet Switching (OPS) and transmission networks based on Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) have been increasingly deployed in the Internet infrastructure over the last decade in order to meet the huge increasing demand for bandwidth. Several different technologies have been developed for optical packet switching such as space switches, broadcast-and-select, input buffered switches and output buffered switches. These architectures vary based on several parameters such as the way of optical buffering, the placement of optical buffers, the way of solving the external blocking inherited from switching technologies in general and the components used to implement the WDM. This study surveys most of the exiting optical packet switching architectures. A simulation-based comparison of input buffered and output buffered architectures is presented. The performance analysis of the selected two architectures is derived using simulation program and compared at different scenarios. We found that the output buffered architectures give better performance than input buffered architectures. The simulation results show that the-broadcast-and-select architecture is attractive in terms that it has lees number of components compared to other switches.

UNITED STABILIZING SCHEME FOR EDGE DELAY IN OPTICAL BURST SWITCHED NETWORKS

A novel scheme, namely united stabilizing scheme for edge delay, is introduced in optical burst switched networks. In the scheme, the limits of burst length and assembly time are both set according to certain qualifications. For executing the scheme, the conception for unit input bit rate is introduced to improve universality, and the assembly algorithm with a buffer safety space under the self-similar traffic model at each ingress edge router is proposed. Then, the components of burst and packet delay are concluded, and the equations that limits of burst length and assembly time should satisfy to stabilize the burst edge delay under different buffer offered loads are educed. The simulation results show that united stabilizing scheme stabilizes both burst and packet edge delay to a great extent when buffer offered load changes from 0.1 to 1, and the edge delay of burst and packet are near the limit values under larger offered load, respectively.

非金属光缆防冻性能研究及结构设计

介绍了光缆冰冻故障产生的原因,分析了冰冻对光缆性能的影响,提出可以通过在光缆中设置缓冲层来保证内部光单元及传输性能的稳定。文中阐述了影响缓冲层材料选择的主要因素,以及缓冲层厚度设置的理论依据,并设计了一种具有抗冰冻功能的非金属光缆,对该光缆相关防护性能、机械性能进行了验证试验。试验结果表明:在抗冰冻试验中,设置缓冲层的光缆,其光纤最大附加衰减与残余衰减符合工程应用标准,机械性能均满足YD/T 901—2018要求。

Synthesis,Characterization and Photoluminescence of Well-Ordered ZnO Micropillars Grown on ZnO Buffer Layers

Using ZnO buffer layers prepared by simply thermal oxidation of ion beam sputtered Zn films, highly oriented and uniformly aligned single-crystalline ZnO micropillars arrays have been synthesized by thermal evaporation of Zn powder with flee catalysts at low temperature of 430℃ The ZnO micropillars show sharp hexagonal umbrella-like tips with thin ZnO nanowire grown on the tips. The umbrella-like tips grow in a layer-by-layer mode along the direction of [001]. The growth mechanism has been discussed. The formation of the micropillars basically depends on the gradually decreasing Zn vapor pressure and subsequently cooling process. The photoluminescence （PL） spectrum indicates a moderately good crystal quality of the ZnO micropillars. Our results may reinforce the understanding of the formation mechanism of different ZnO nano/microstructures. This kind of complex microstructures may find potential applications in multifunctional microdevices, optoelectronic and field emission devices.

Multi-wavelength laser active coherent combination

A seed laser oscillating at different frequencies is proved to have the potential to mitigate the stimulated Brillouin scattering（SBS） effect in a fiber amplifier,which may increase the emission power of a coherent beam combination（CBC） system greatly.In this study,a basic mathematical model describing the multi-wavelength CBC is proposed on the fundamentals of CBC.A useful method for estimating the combination effect and analysing the feasibility and the validity of the multi-wavelength coherent combination is provided.In the numerical analysis,accordant results with four-wavelength four-channel CBC experiments are obtained.Through calculations of some examples with certain spectra,the unanticipated excellent combination effect with a few frequencies involved is explained,and the dependence of the combination effect on the variance of the amplifier chain length and the channel number is clarified.

基于链路循环的网络时延模拟方法研究

针对当前网络时延模拟软件量程窄、精度低、资源占用高的问题,提出一种基于链路循环的网络时延模拟方法。该方法将时延模拟分为两个阶段:第一阶段通过链路循环实现宽量程的时延模拟,第二阶段通过内存队列缓冲数据实现精度优化。实验结果表明,该方法能够以微秒级精度实现秒级时延模拟。此外,相较于主流时延模拟软件NetEm,该方法能在各个带宽下降低55%~80%的内存占用,在满足精度需求的同时极大地降低系统成本。

Performance improvement for optical packet switch with shared buffers

In this paper, an inner wavelength method is proposed to enlarge buffering capacity of shared fiber delay line buffers. In addition, an optical packet switch called extended shared buffer type optical packet switch (extended SB-OPS) is proposed to realize the inner wavelength method. In order to further improve performance of extended SB-OPS, a greedy algorithm based on inner wavelength method is introduced. The performance of extended SB-OPS is evaluated by simulation experiments.

Multi-wavelength fiber ring laser based on a chirped moiré fiber grating and a semiconductor optical amplifier

A simple and cost-effective multi-wavelength fiber ring laser based on a chirped Moire fiber grating （CMFG） and a semiconductor optical amplifier （SOA） is proposed. Stable triple-wavelength lasing oscillations at room temperature are experimentally demonstrated. The measured optical signal-to-noise ratio （SNR） reaches the highest value of 50 dB and the power fluctuation of each wavelength is less than 0.2 dB within a 1-h period. To serve as a wavelength selective element, the CMFG possesses excellent comb-like filtering characteristics including stable wavelength interval and ultra-narrow passband, and its fabrication method is easy and flexible. The lasing oscillation shows a narrower bandwidth than SOA-based multi-wavelength fiber lasers utilizing some other kinds of wavelength selective components. Methods to optimize the laser performance are also discussed.

Multi-Wavelength Conversion Using FP-LD with Linear Optical Amplifier

We propose and demonstrate a multi-wavelength converter using FP-LD with linear optical amplifier (LOA) which based on cross-gain modulation can convert an input signal to many wavelengths simultaneously for reconfigurable wavelength conversion in OXC and broadcasting in WDM systems.

Low dispersion broadband integrated double-slot microring resonators optical buffer

Microring resonator optical buffer is attractive in high-speed optical network system, but ordinary microring resonator use strip waveguide as its basic light guide medium, which cannot provide small footprint, low dispersion and high delay-bandwidth product （DBP） simultaneously. Double-slot waveguide structure was first proposed to construct racetrack-microring resonators. It was found that cascading multiple microrings can increase the delay-bandwidth and lower the dispersion of the resonators by optimizing the structure parameters. Optical buffer cascaded by 8 microrings with fiat bandwidth of 20 GHz provided the delay of 150 ps and the dispersion of -10-7 ps/um over 1530-1630 nm, and the footprint of each microring was about 511ma2. This study can provide design methods and theoretical basis support for practical application.

Dispersion of double-slot in optical microring resonators buffer

In the optical packet switching network, optical buffer is an important device. Microring resonator optical buffers provide good delay performance and flexibility in design. By cascading multiple microring resonators, higher delay-bandwidth product is obtained, but the requirements of high integration and low dispersion are hard to satisfy simultaneously. Double-slot waveguide was proposed to construct highly integrated racetrack microring resonators in this study. Based on dispersion analysis of the thickness of each layer of a waveguide, the structure ofwaveguide was optimized to reach flat and low dispersion. Average dispersions of straight and 3 μm bend waveguides were 5.1 ps/（nm·km） and 4.4 ps/（nm· km）, respectively. Besides, the additional loss from coupling was greatly reduced when applying proper relative displacement between straight and bend waveguides. Theoretical and design basis provided in this paper will help to develop multi-microring optical buffers in the future.