“…Previously, some implementations of optical labels were proposed and some of them have also been demonstrated, such as wavelength division modulation (e.g., wavelength diversity label), 13 time division modulation (e.g., bit serial label), 14 frequency division modulation (e.g., sub-carrier label), 15 optical code division modulation [e.g., optical orthogonal code (OOC) label], [16][17][18][19] and orthogonal modulation (e.g., amplitude shift keying, frequency shift keying, and differential phase-shift keying.) 5,9 Among these techniques of optical label schemes, as an alternative scheme, optical codes-based optical label technique is attracted widely, owing to its advantages, such as no required clock extraction, low latency, and all-optical processing. However, considering thousands of addresses (namely optical labels) in OPS networks, the limited number of OOCs for optical labels with the given code length and weight is not practical for use of optical labels that one OOC assigns only one address.…”