40-Gb/s all-optical packet switching with a distributed-feedback laser as all-optical flip-flop

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 21, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 703-705

  Huybrechts, Koen ^a   Tanemura, Takuo ^b   Nakano, Yashiaki ^b   Baets, Roel ^a   Morthier, Geert ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

All optical flip flop (AOFF); Distributed feedback laser (DFB); Optical packet switching

Indexed keywords

ALL OPTICAL PACKET SWITCHING; ALL-OPTICAL; ALL-OPTICAL FLIP-FLOP (AOFF); DISTRIBUTED-FEEDBACK LASER (DFB); GUARD TIME; OPTICAL PACKET SWITCHING;

FLIP FLOP CIRCUITS; LASERS; OPTICAL SWITCHES; PACKET SWITCHING; SWITCHING CIRCUITS;

FEEDBACK;

EID: 66549114438     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2009.2016671     Document Type: Article

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