160-Gb/s all-optical packet-switching with in-band filter-based label extraction and a hybrid-integrated optical flip-flop

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 19, Issue 13, 2007, Pages 990-992

  Herrera, J ^a,b   Tangdiongga, E ^a   Liu, Y ^a   Hill, M T ^a   McDougall, R ^c   Poustie, A ^c   Maxwell, G ^c   Ramos, F ^b   Marti, J ^b   de Waardt, H ^a   Khoe, G D ^a   Koonen, A M J ^a   Dorren, H J S ^a  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

^c Ipswich Research Centre   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Label extraction; Optical flip flop; Packet switching; Semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA); Wavelength conversion

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; OPTICAL FILTERS; OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PACKET SWITCHING; ARRAYED WAVEGUIDE GRATINGS; EXTRACTION; FLIP FLOP CIRCUITS; SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIERS;

ALL-OPTICAL PACKET SWITCHING; FILTER-BASED LABEL EXTRACTION; OPTICAL FLIP-FLOP; WAVELENGTH CONVERTER;

PHOTONICS; SWITCHING;

ERROR FREE OPERATIONS; HIGH SCALABILITIES; HYBRID-INTEGRATED OPTICAL; LABEL EXTRACTION; LABELING SCHEME; OPTICAL FLIP-FLOP; TUNABLE OPTICAL FILTERS; WAVELENGTH CONVERTER;

EID: 34347214816     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2007.898751     Document Type: Article

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