An opto-VLSI Correlator for Optical Header Recognition

Authors

Rong Zheng, Edith Cowan University
Muhsen Aljada, Edith Cowan University
Zhenglin Wang, Edith Cowan University
Kamal Alameh, Edith Cowan UniversityFollow

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Keywords

Bragg gratings, Correlators, Fiber gratings, High speed optical techniques, Optical arrays, Optical attenuators, Optical filters, Optical modulation, Optical packet switching, Stimulated emission

Publisher

Omnipress

Faculty

Faculty of Computing, Health and Science

School

Electron Science Research Institute (ESRI)

RAS ID

4203

Comments

Zheng, R. , Aljada, M. , Wang, Z. , & Alameh, K. (2006). An opto-VLSI Correlator for Optical Header Recognition. Proceedings of Optical Fiber Communication Conference 2006. (pp. 3 pages). USA. Omnipress. Available here

Abstract

We propose an opto-VLSI correlator for optical header recognition where an array of fiber Bragg gratings is used in combination with an opto-VLSI processor. A proof-of-concept 4-bit opto-VLSI correlator is experimentally demonstrated at 2.2 Gb/s.