Optical rate conversion for high-speed TDM networks

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 1277-1279

  Patel, N S ^b   Hall, K L ^a,b   Rauschenbach, K A ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b MIT LINCOLN LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

All optical networks; All optical switching; Non linear optical devices; OTDM; Rate conversion; Ultrafast networks; Ultrafast nonlinear optics; Ultrafast processing

Indexed keywords

FIBER LASERS; OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION; OPTICAL SWITCHES; TIME DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; ULTRAFAST PHENOMENA;

ULTRAHIGH SPEED OPTICAL DATA STREAMS;

FIBER OPTIC NETWORKS;

EID: 0031236310     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.618503     Document Type: Article

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