All-optical label/payload separation at 40 Gb/s

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 18, Issue 19, 2006, Pages 2023-2025

  Apostolopoulos, D ^a   Petrantonakis, D ^a   Zouraraki, O ^a   Kehayas, E ^a   Pleros, N ^a   Avramopoulos, H ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

All optical label swapping; Integrated Mach Zehnder interferometer; Label separation; Optical packet switching

Indexed keywords

40 GB/S; ALL-OPTICAL; ALL-OPTICAL LABEL SWAPPING; DATA PACKET; LABEL SEPARATION; LABEL/PAYLOAD SEPARATION; MACH-ZEHNDER SWITCH; OPTICAL PACKET SWITCHING; PSEUDO RANDOM BIT SEQUENCES; VARIABLE LENGTH;

MACH-ZEHNDER INTERFEROMETERS; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; OPTICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; PACKET SWITCHING; ROUTERS;

OPTICAL SWITCHES;

EID: 34548456737     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2006.883328     Document Type: Article

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