High Speed Time-Division Multi-Access for Fiber-Optic Networks

所要求的设备是一个快脉冲锁模激光系统。该系统为全光网络快速时分多址技术的研究奠定了基础。全光网络架构使用光信号处理时钟产生、调制、编码、解码、协议处理和阈值检测。我们的实验室已经演示了扩频和时分等光带宽扩展协议，并实现了可容纳125个用户的12.5 Gbps网络。未来的研究将通过光脉冲压缩来探索光网络的基本极限，朝着太比特/秒光通信的方向发展。他们将使用光处理来实现网络中的更高层。光处理的独特优点，如速度和并行性，应该会导致独特的网络架构，其功能远远超过当前的系统。

The equipment requested is a fast-pulse mode-locked laser system. this system will enable research on fast time division multiaccess techniques for all-optical networks. All-optical network architectures use optical signal processing for clock generation, modulation, encoding, decoding, protocol-handling and threshold detection. Optical bandwidth- expansion protocols such as spread spectrum and time division have already been demonstrated in our laboratory, and a 12.5 Gbps network has been implemented that accommodates 125 users. Future research will explore the fundamental limits of optical networks with optical pulse compression, moving toward terabit/sec optical communications. They will use optical processing to implement higher layers in the networks. The unique virtues of optical processing, such as speed and parallelism, should lead to unique network architectures with capabilities far beyond present-day systems.