In order to break the electronic processing bottleneck of current routers andswitches

Internet will certainly evolve into a WDM--based all--optical network. The opticalrouter will play key roles in the future optical Internet

so it is necessary to research anddevelop the optical router. In this paper

we propose a architecture of optical router

which is based on labeled optical burst switching mechanism. The proposed architecturecan provide all--optical edge--to--edge data routing and transport services without o--e/e--oconversions. The paper has studied and analyzed some key issues in implementation includ-ing the burst data format and assembly

the extraction and recognition of burst header

optical routing and label switching

and congestion. Moreover we put forward some feasi-ble solutions to the issues

designed an experimental system and gave the relevant experi-ment results.