All-optical Mach-Zehnder interferometer wavelength converters and switches with integrated data- and control-signal separation scheme

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1056-1066

  Leuthold, Juerg ^a,b   Besse, Pierre Andre ^c   Gamper, Emil ^a   Dülk, Marcus ^a   Fischer, Stefan ^a   Guekos, Georg ^a   Melchior, Hans ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^c EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERFEROMETERS; OPTICAL FILTERS; OPTICAL SWITCHES;

MACH-ZEHNDER INTERFEROMETERS (MZI); WAVELENGTH CONVERTERS;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT;

EID: 0032684302     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/50.769308     Document Type: Article

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