Quasi-light storage: A method for the tunable storage of optical packets with a potential delay-bandwidth product of several thousand bits

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 28, Issue 17, 2010, Pages 2586-2592

  Schneider, Thomas ^a   Jamshidi, Kambiz ^a   Preubler, Stefan ^a  

^a Institute of Telecommunication and Information Technology   (Germany)

Author keywords

Brillouin scattering; Nonlinear optics; Optical buffering

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH PRODUCT; DATA RATES; FREQUENCY DOMAINS; LIGHT STORAGE; OPTICAL BUFFERING; OPTICAL PACKETS; ROOM TEMPERATURE; STANDARD FIBERS; TELECOM;

BRILLOUIN SCATTERING; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL MATERIALS; TELECOMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT; ULTRASONICS;

LIGHT;

EID: 77956029479     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2010.2056355     Document Type: Article

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