Fast Tunable Wavelength Conversion for All-Optical Packet Switching

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 10, 2000, Pages 1361-1363

  Ciaramella, Ernesto ^a   Contestabile, Giampiero ^a   Curti, Franco ^a   D'Ottavi, Alessandro ^a  

^a FONDAZIONE UGO BORDONI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Frequency conversion; Optical fiber communications; Photonic switching systems; Semiconductor optical amplifiers

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000247424     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.883830     Document Type: Article

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