All-optical switching of 40 Gb/s packets by MMI-BLD optical label memory

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 22, 2006, Pages 10785-10789

  Takenaka, M ^a   Takeda, K ^b   Kanema, Y ^b   Nakano, Y ^b   Raburn, M ^c   Miyahara, T ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b Optoelectronic Industry and Technology Development Association   (Japan)

^c INFINERA CORPORATION   (United States)

^d MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLIP FLOP CIRCUITS; LIGHT INTERFERENCE; OPTICAL SWITCHES; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; TRANSPARENCY; ULTRAFAST PHENOMENA;

EXTINCTION RATIO; OPTICAL FLIP-FLOPS; OPTICAL NETWORKS; OPTICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING;

OPTICAL DATA STORAGE;

EID: 33750723782     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.010785     Document Type: Article

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