METHOD OF SWITCHING OPTICAL PACKETS AND DEVICE FOR THEREFOR Russian patent published in 2015 - IPC H04B10/00 

FIELD: physics, computer engineering.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to means of designing digital systems. The method includes transmitting a label in the address part of an optical unit, using a clock channel with an allocated wavelength λ_N+1 and transmitting clock pulses which are common for all optical transmission channels and which form frames. The units consist of an address and a data (data packet) field. There is a label in the address field, the label representing a feature of a switch to which the message is addressed. There are protective intervals t₁ and t₂ before and after the label. A protective interval t₃ can be located at the end of a frame. A separate bit sequence corresponds to each switch, and in the absence of a data unit, an "Empty unit label" is written in the address to form a so-called "empty unit".

EFFECT: high rate of processing information with fewer electronic-optical conversions in the system and resultant distortions.

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