Patent ID: 9628878
Date: 2017-04-18
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04Q,H04W

Claim:
1. A method for multi-wavelength encoding, the method comprising: receiving an input packet stream having an address and data; generating a first optical stream and a second optical stream in accordance with the input packet stream comprising inverse multiplexing the input packet stream; encoding the address of the input packet stream producing an encoded address comprising a first group of symbols including a first selected symbol and a second selected symbol, wherein the first group of symbols has more than two symbols; generating a first wavelength in accordance with the first selected symbol; generating an output optical packet stream having the data of the input packet stream and the first wavelength, wherein the first wavelength corresponds to the first selected symbol; generating a second wavelength corresponding to the second selected symbol; modulating the first wavelength with the first optical stream; and modulating the second wavelength with the second optical stream.