Rapidly switching all-optical packet routing system with optical-label swapping incorporating tunable wavelength conversion and a uniform-loss cyclic frequency AWGR

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 14, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 1211-1213

  Yoo, S J B ^a   Lee, Hyuek Jae ^a   Pan, Zhong ^a   Cao, Jing ^a   Zhang, Yanda ^a   Okamoto, Katsunari ^b   Kamei, Shin ^b  

^a University of California   (United States)

^b NTT CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Arrayed waveguide grating; Multiprotocol label switching (MPLS); Optical label switching; Optical packet switching; Subcarrier multiplexing (SCM); Wavelength conversion

Indexed keywords

ASYNCHRONOUS TRANSFER MODE; BIT ERROR RATE; INTERNET; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; MULTIPLEXING; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; PACKET SWITCHING; ROUTERS;

MULTIPROTOCOL LABEL SWITCHING (MPLS);

OPTICAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 0036686813     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2002.1022021     Document Type: Article

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