All-optical 3R burst-mode reception at 40 Gb/s using four integrated MZI switches

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 184-192

  Kanellos, George T ^a   Petrantonakis, Dimitris ^a   Tsiokos, Dimitris ^a   Bakopoulos, Paraskevas ^a   Zakynthinos, Panagiotis ^a   Pleros, Nikos ^a   Apostolopoulos, Dimitris ^a   Maxwell, Graeme ^b   Poustie, Alistair ^b   Avramopoulos, Hercules ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b Centre for Integrated Photonics   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Burst mode receiver (BMR); Dynamic range; Integrated Mach Zehnder interferometer (MZI); Optical burst switching; Optical packet switching; Optical signal processing

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING; OPTICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; OPTICAL SWITCHES; PACKET SWITCHING; TIMING JITTER;

BURST-MODE RECEIVER; DATA RECEPTION; DATA REGENERATION; OPTICAL PACKET SWITCHING; OPTICAL-BURST SWITCHING;

MACH-ZEHNDER INTERFEROMETERS;

EID: 34147119006     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2006.888169     Document Type: Conference Paper

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