All-optical buffering of 40-Gb/s data packets

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 442-444

  Hall, K L ^a,b   Rauschenbach, K A ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b MIT LINCOLN LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fiber lasers; Nonlinear devices; Optical buffer; Optical memory; Optical storage; Time division multiplexing

Indexed keywords

BUFFER STORAGE; FIBER LASERS; OPTICAL FIBERS; PACKET NETWORKS; TIME DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; ULTRAFAST PHENOMENA;

ALL OPTICAL BUFFERING;

OPTICAL DATA STORAGE;

EID: 0032024527     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.661437     Document Type: Article

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