Optical correlator employing Opto-VLSI processing

Authors

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

Document Type

Journal Article

Keywords

pattern recognition, optical correlators, packet switching, fibre Bragg gratings, optical communication

Publisher

Wiley

Faculty

Faculty of Computing, Health and Science

School

Electron Science Research Institute (ESRI)

RAS ID

5164

Comments

Aljada, M. , Zheng, R. , Alameh, K. , & Al-Begain, K. (2006). Optical correlator employing Opto-VLSI processing. Microwave & Technology Letters, 48(5), 995-997. Available here

Abstract

We propose a novel optical correlator employing an Opto-VLSI processor in conjunction with an array of fibre Bragg gratings with different Bragg wavelengths for optical header recognition. The recognition of 5-bit optical header patterns is experimentally demonstrated at 2.27 Gb/s