拓扑学上的光网络由边（光传输）和节点（光交换）组成。从业务属性出发，基于连接和无连接方式，分析了光交换的时间结构，包括光分组和光突发的时间结构，以及不同动态性的光电路交换的时长及其度量标准，结合实验结果分析了最短光电路交换的时长极限。从多端口和大容量的要求出发，重点讨论了基于微电子机械系统(MEMS)开关、波长选择开关(WSS)和阵列波导光栅(AWG)的三种光交换结构。分析了光交换结构的扩展方法，并讨论了光交换的几个具有挑战性的问题，包括缓存和能耗问题。通过分析，希望从时间和空间两个维度更清晰地认识光交换的本质及其与电交换的异同。

We design a compact triplexer based on two-dimensional (2D) hexagonal lattice photonic crystals (PCs). A folded directional coupler (FDC) is introduced in the triplexer beside the point-defect micro-cavities and line-defect waveguides. Because of the reflection feedback of the FDC, high channel drop efficiency can be realized and a compact size with the order of micrometers can be maintained. The proposed device is analyzed using the plane wave expansion method, and its transmission characteristics are calculated using the finite-difference time-domain method. The footprint of the triplexer is about 12×9 μm, and its extinction ratios are less than –20 dB for 1310 nm, approximately –20 dB for 1490 nm, and under –40 dB for 1550 nm, making it a potentially essential device in future fiber-to-the-home networks.

We demonstrate an all-optical reconfigurable logic gate based on dominant nonlinear polarization rotation accompanied with cross-gain modulation effect in a single semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA). Five logic functions, including NOT, OR, NOR, AND, and NAND, are realized using 10-Gb/s on-off keying signals with flexible wavelength tunability. The operation principle is explained in detail. By adjusting polarization controllers, multiple logic functions corresponding to different input polarization states are separately achieved using a single SOA with high flexibility.

A novel polarization channel drop filter (PCDF) based on two-dimensional (2D) photonic crystals (PCs) is presented. It consists of two line defect waveguides and two point defect micro-cavities. In the line-defect waveguides, the transverse-electric (TE) and transverse-magnetic (TM) polarization lights are guided using photonic band-gap and total internal reflection effect, respectively. The light at the resonant frequency for TE polarization can be transferred from one waveguide to the other using the proposed system. Compared with the existing four-port PCDF based on PCs, the three-port structure can realize a multi-channel wavelength system of PCDF more easily and can be an essential device in future polarization wavelength division multiplexing (PWDM) systems.

结合光分组交换(OPS)网络和光纤通道(FC)技术的优势, 提出一种下一代航电系统组网方案——基于光分组交换网络的光纤通道技术(FC over OPS)。建立了数学仿真模型, 研究了一种数据块填装算法与网络实时性之间的关系, 分析不同的参数如发送带宽、最低效率门限、发送定时的选取对网络实时性的影响。进一步完成硬件原型设计和仿真, 比较了软件仿真与硬件仿真的结果, 并分析该数据块填装算法的性能。

调研了传统光传(FBL)网络的几种拓扑结构, 就可靠性和实时性两方面对它们进行了分析和比较。选择采用一个包含256个节点的mesh光交换网络, 它具有冗余拓扑结构能承受3处链路故障, 保证了网络的可靠性。以网络中发生链路故障的数目, 及多个故障同时发生时故障的邻近程度来衡量网络故障的严重性。对所有链路故障情形进行仿真, 测试端到端的通信延迟。仿真结果表明, 采用这种网络拓扑结构的光传网络, 即使在发生较为严重的故障的情况下, 端到端通信路由的跳数增加不大, 仍能满足实时通信的要求。

在高性能计算机系统中, 极低延迟高吞吐量的光交换网络具有很多优势, 而光开关作为全光交换网络中的关键器件, 它的性能直接影响到光交换网络的交换能力, 是近年光通信领域的研究热点。半导体微环共振器作为近年提出的一种新的光开关解决方案, 在功耗、延迟、体积等方面具有优势, 目前吸引了越来越多研究机构的注意, 并先后提出了一些比较有价值的微环共振器光开关设计方案。结合目前国内外微环共振器光开关的最新进展, 分析了微环共振器光开关在高性能计算机和光交换网络中的应用, 需要进一步改进的研究重点, 以及微环共振器作为低延迟光开关的发展前景。

The stable multicast flow aggregation (MFA) problem in internet protocol (IP) over optical network under the dynamical scenario is studied. Given an optical network topology, there is a set of head ends and access routers attached to the optical network, in which each head end can provide a set of programs (IP multicasting flows) and each access router requests a set of programs, we find a set of stable light-trees to accommodate the optimally aggregated multicast IP flows if the requests of access routers changed dynamically. We introduce a program correlation matrix to describe the preference of end users’ requests. As the original MFA problem is NP-complete, a heuristic approach, named most correlated program first (MCPF), is presented and compared with the extended least tree first (ELTF) algorithm which is topology-aware. Simulation results show that MCPF can achieve better performance than ELTF in terms of stability with negligible increment of network resource usage.

在采用密集波分复用技术的骨干网中,通过建立动态多粒度业务模型对由大粒度(光纤和波带)和小粒度(波长)组成的三阶多粒度光交叉连接所构成的节点的网络特性(阻塞概率和带宽阻塞比)进行了研究和仿真分析,并由此对三阶多粒度节点的结构参数和网络中的系统参数进行了优化设计.从仿真结果可以看出,所提出来的优化设计方案能够显著的减少节点结构的复杂度并改善阻塞性能,从而减小了网络中设备的规模和成本.

报道了采用直接调制和外调制激光源2.5 Gb/s光纤通信系统的带内串扰功率代价实验比较,结果与理论分析非常吻合。在相同串扰水平情况下,直接调制的功率代价小于外调制的功率代价。