Fast and widely tunable optical packet switching scheme based on tunable laser and dual-pump four-wave mixing

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1412-1414

  Klonidis, Dimitrios ^a   Politi, Christina Tanya ^a   O'Mahony, Michael ^a   Simeonidou, Dimitra ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Optical frequency conversion; Optical switches; Packet switching; Semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA)

Indexed keywords

FOUR WAVE MIXING; LASERS; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION; PACKET SWITCHING; ROUTERS; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES;

ARRAYED WAVELENGTH GRATING; DUAL-PUMP FOUR WAVE MIXING; NEXT GENERATION CORE OPTICAL PACKET ROUTERS; OPTICAL PACKET SWITCHING; PACKET-BASED BIT ERROR RATE MEASUREMENT; PACKET-BY-PACKET SWITCHING; PASSIVE ROUTING; SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIER; TUNABLE LASER; WAVELENGTH CONVERSION;

OPTICAL SWITCHES;

EID: 2442553762     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2004.826135     Document Type: Article

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