Demonstration of a 1.2 Tb/s Optical Packet Switch Fabric (32 * 40 Gb/s) based on 40 Gb/s Burst-Mode Clock-Data-Recovery, Fast Tunable Lasers, and a High-Performance NxN AWG

We demonstrate a 1.2 Tb/s optical packet switch fabric based on burst -mode clock -data-recovery at 40 Gb/s with packet separations of up to 400 ns and lock times under 5 ns, fast wavelength switching between 32 channels in less than 46 ns, and a 42x42 AWG with a worst-case loss of 4.2 dB.