All-Optical Compare-and-Exchange Switches

L. Zhang; R. Jin; C. W. Stirk; G. Khitrova; R. A. Athale; H. M. Gibbs; H. M. Chou; R. W. Sprague; H. A. Macleod

doi:10.1109/49.7850

All-Optical Compare-and-Exchange Switches

L. Zhang, R. Jin, C. W. Stirk, G. Khitrova, R. A. Athale, H. M. Gibbs, H. M. Chou, R. W. Sprague, H. A. Macleod

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All-optical compare and exchange is experimentally demonstrated using ZnS bistable optical devices. The compare-and-exchange demonstration utilizes polarization multiplexing and filtering, and latching and bidirectional logic. The combination of 2-D arrays of compare-and-exchange modules with optical perfect-shuffle interconnections leads to pipelined optical sorting networks that can process large numbers of high-bandwidth signals in parallel. Optical sorting networks with these characteristics are applicable in telecommunication switches, parallel processor interconnections, and database machines.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	1273-1279
Number of pages	7
Journal	IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
Volume	6
Issue number	7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/49.7850
State	Published - Aug 1988

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