Optical Switch Fabrics for Ultra-high-capacity IP Routers

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 21, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 2839-2850

  Gripp, Jürgen ^a   Duelk, Marcus ^a   Simsarian, John E ^a   Bhardwaj, Ashish ^a   Bernasconi, Pietro ^a   Laznicka, Oldrich ^b   Zirngibl, Martin ^a  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^b NOKIA RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Array waveguide gratings; Burst mode receivers; Optical packet switching; Terabit routers; Tunable lasers

Indexed keywords

ARRAYS; ASYNCHRONOUS TRANSFER MODE; BANDWIDTH; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; LASERS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PACKET SWITCHING; ROUTERS; SIGNAL RECEIVERS; SWITCHES; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC;

ARRAY WAVEGUIDE GRATING; BURST-MODE RECEIVERS; OPTICAL PACKET SWITCHING; TERABIT ROUTERS; TUNABLE LASERS;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 0346342605     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2003.819150     Document Type: Article

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