All-optical wavelength-routing switch with monolithically integrated filter-free tunable wavelength converters and an AWG

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 4340-4345

  Segawa, Toru ^a   Matsuo, Shinji ^a   Kakitsuka, Takaaki ^a   Shibata, Yasuo ^a   Sato, Tomonari ^a   Kawaguchi, Yoshihiro ^a   Kondo, Yasuhiro ^a   Takahashi, Ryo ^a  

^a NTT CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GATES (TRANSISTOR); LASERS; MONOLITHIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PACKET SWITCHING; RESONATORS; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS; WAVEGUIDES;

10-GBIT/S; ALL-OPTICAL; FAST TUNABLE; MONOLITHICALLY INTEGRATED; NONRETURN TO ZERO SIGNAL; OPTICAL GATES; OPTICAL PACKET SWITCHING; OPTICAL SIGNALS; RIDGE WAVEGUIDES; RING RESONATOR; SWITCHING TIME; TUNABLE LASERS; TUNABLE WAVELENGTH CONVERTER; WAVELENGTH ROUTING;

ARRAYED WAVEGUIDE GRATINGS;

EID: 77749298139     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.004340     Document Type: Article

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