Enabling Tb/s photonic routing: Development of advanced hybrid integrated photonic devices to realize high-speed, all-optical packet switching

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 849-860

  Stampoulidis, Leontios ^a,b   Apostolopoulos, Dimitrios ^a,b   Petrantonakis, Dimitris ^a,b   Zakynthinos, Panagiotis ^a,b   Bakopoulos, Paraskevas ^a,b   Zouraraki, Olga ^a,b   Kehayas, Efstratios ^a,b   Poustie, Alistair ^a,c   Maxwell, Graeme ^c   Avramopoulos, Hercules ^b  

^a IEEE

^b NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^c Centre for Integrated Photonics   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Functional integration; Hybrid integration; Optical fiber communication; Optical packet switching; Optical signal processing; Photonic integration; Semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOAs); Silicon optical bench; Terabit photonic router

Indexed keywords

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; OPTICAL SWITCHES; PACKET SWITCHING; POWER GENERATION; ROUTERS; SILICA; SILICATE MINERALS; SILICON; SILICON COMPOUNDS;

ALL-OPTICAL PACKET SWITCHING (OPS); DEVICE APPLICATIONS; DEVICE FABRICATIONS; EUROPEAN RESEARCH PROJECT; FULLY INTEGRATED; HIGH SPEEDS; INTEGRATED ARRAYS; INTEGRATED PHOTONIC DEVICES; OPTICAL (PET) (OPET); PHOTONIC; PHOTONIC CHIPS; PHOTONIC INTEGRATIONS; PHOTONIC ROUTERS; PROCESSING POWER; SILICA ON SILICON; TRANSITION (JEL CLASSIFICATIONS:E52 ,E41 ,E31);

COMPUTER NETWORKS;

EID: 45249107983     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2007.914785     Document Type: Article

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