Korea Telecommunication Authority

Korea Telecom

Jin Sik Park

Sang Goo Lee

Kyeong Mo Yoon

Yong Ki Park

Su Mi Chang

Sang In Kim

Yoon Hak Bang

Jin Seob Eom

Kwang Bok Kim

Ki O Park

Sang Ho Ahn

A multiwave optical buffer using a loop mirror of the present invention can transmit cells to a preferable node in accordance with electric control, without causing conflicts among the cells, when the cells having various waves reach a single node at the same time on a high-speed network. In order to prevent conflicts among the cells, the multiwave optical buffer using the loop mirror in accordance with the present invention stores cells having low priority and outputs the cells in a preferable time pursuant to the electric phase control, thereby improving efficiency of a high-speed optical communication network.

Multiwave optical buffer using loop mirror

The present invention relates to an apparatus of a high speed optical buffer utilizing a cell pointer so that optical cells of asynchronous transfer mode can be stored and processed at high speed without the restriction of processing time for a high speed network architecture, wherein an internal switch of the apparatus would be controlled by extracting optically the cell pointer indicating starting point by using a high speed optical buffer with terahertz optical asymmetric demultiplex (Terahetz Optical Asymmetric Demultiplexer) in order to avoid a collision of each cell which is transmitted on a same channel especially at the high speed network.

Optical buffer utilizing a cell pointer

An optical asynchronous transfer mode ATM switch for recovering the limitation of processing capacity and performing large capacity of switching is disclosed. The ATM switch includes wavelength division multiplexing/time division multiplexing conversion modules for demultiplexing wavelength multiplexed optical channels through transmission links of respective input terminals of a switch to convert them into a primary wavelength for routing to their respective channels and compressing to time division multiplexing for preventing collision between cells, a first router for routing the respective cells which are converted into a primary wavelength by the wavelength division multiplexing/time division multiplexing conversion modules to assign the first destination, time division multiplexing/wavelength division multiplexing conversion modules for demultiplexing the channel signals routed by the first router, decompressing into original signals to convert them into wavelength to be routed for final destination and compressing them again to prevent collision between cells, and second routers for routing the decompressed signals from the time division multiplexing/wavelength division multiplexing conversion modules to the final destination.

Large capacity optical ATM switch

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Seoul, South Korea

Jin Sik Park