Arrayed-Waveguide-Grating-Based Correlator for Optical Header Recognition

Authors

Muhsen Aljada, Edith Cowan University
Kamal Alameh, Edith Cowan UniversityFollow
Khalid Al-Begain

Document Type

Journal Article

Publisher

Wiley

Faculty

Faculty of Computing, Health and Science

School

Electron Science Research Institute (ESRI)

RAS ID

5163

Comments

Aljada, M. , Alameh, K. , & Al-Begain, K. (2006). Arrayed-Waveguide-Grating-Based Correlator for Optical Header Recognition. Microwave & Technology Letters, 48(9), 1839-1843. Available here

Abstract

We propose an incoherent optical correlator for header recognition in optical packet-switched networks, employing two arrayed waveguide grating and waveguide delay lines. The operation is demonstrated experimentally for 4-bit patterns at 2.5 Gb/s. Results show that the proposed optical correlator generates autocorrelation and cross-correlation signals that can easily be recognized using a simple threshold detector.

DOI

10.1002/mop.21782