IST-LASAGNE: Towards all-optical label swapping employing optical logic gates and optical flip-flops

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 23, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 2993-3011

  Ramos, F ^a   Kehayas, E ^b   Martinez, J M ^a   Clavero, R ^a   Marti, J ^a   Stampoulidis, L ^b   Tsiokos, D ^b   Avramopoulos, H ^b   Zhang, J ^c   Holm Nielsen, P V ^c   Chi, N ^c   Jeppesen, P ^c   Yan, N ^d   Tafur Monroy, I ^d   Koonen, A M J ^d   Hill, M T ^d   Liu, Y ^d   Dorren, H J S ^d   Van Caenegem, R ^e   Colle, D ^e   Pickavet, M ^e   Riposati, B ^f   more..

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

^b NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^d EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^e GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^f TELECOM ITALIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

All optical label swapping; All optical logic gates; All optical signal processing; Mach Zehnder interferometer; Optical flip flops; Optical packet switching; Semiconductor optical amplifier; Ultrafast nonlinear interferometer

Indexed keywords

FLIP FLOP CIRCUITS; INTEGRATED OPTOELECTRONICS; INTERFEROMETERS; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; LOGIC GATES; PACKET SWITCHING; ROUTERS;

ALL-OPTICAL LABEL SWAPPING; ALL-OPTICAL LOGIC GATES; ALL-OPTICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; MACH-ZENDER INTERFEROMETER; SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIER; ULTRAFAST NONLINEAR INTERFEROMETER;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 27844489567     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2005.855714     Document Type: Article

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