Ultrafast Nonlinear Interferometer (UNI)-Based Digital Optical Circuits and Their Use in Packet Switching

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 21, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 2629-2637

  Bintjas, Chris ^a   Vlachos, Kyriakos ^b   Pleros, Nikos ^a   Avramopoulos, Hercules ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

All optical signal processing; Burst packet traffic; Packet switching; Ultrafast nonlinear interferometer

Indexed keywords

BOOLEAN ALGEBRA; DATA COMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT; INTERFEROMETERS; LOGIC CIRCUITS; NONLINEAR SYSTEMS; PACKET NETWORKS; PACKET SWITCHING; SCHEDULING; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC; ULTRAFAST PHENOMENA;

ALL-OPTICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; BURST-PACKET TRAFFIC; ULTRAFAST NONLINEAR INTERFEROMETERS (UNI);

OPTICAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 0347603490     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2003.819139     Document Type: Article

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