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Increase of Recognizable Label Number with Optical Passive Waveguide Circuits for Recognition of Encoded 4- and 8-Bit BPSK Labels

Hiroki KISHIKAWA, Akito IHARA, Nobuo GOTO, Shin-ichiro YANAGIYA

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Optical label processing is expected to reduce power consumption in label switching network nodes. Previously, we proposed passive waveguide circuits for the recognition of BPSK labels with a theoretically infinite contrast ratio. The recognizable label number was limited to four and eight for 4-bit and 8-bit BPSK labels, respectively. In this paper, we propose methods to increase the recognizable label number. The proposed circuits can recognize eight and sixteen labels of 4-bit BPSK codes with a contrast ratio of 4.00 and 2.78, respectively. As 8-bit BSPK codes, 64, 128, and 256 labels can be recognized with a contrast ratio of 4.00, 2.78, and 1.65, respectively. In recognition of all encoded labels, that is, 16 and 256 labels for 4-bit and 8-bit BPSK labels, a reference signal is employed to identify the sign of the optical output signals. The effect of phase deviation and loss along the optical waveguides of the devices is also discussed.

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Electronics Vol.E100-C No.1 pp.84-93
Publication Date
2017/01/01
Publicized
Online ISSN
1745-1353
DOI
10.1587/transele.E100.C.84
Type of Manuscript
PAPER
Category
Optoelectronics

Authors

Hiroki KISHIKAWA
  Tokushima University
Akito IHARA
  Tokushima University
Nobuo GOTO
  Tokushima University
Shin-ichiro YANAGIYA
  Tokushima University

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