The European BOOM project: Silicon photonics for high-capacity optical packet routers

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1422-1433

  Stampoulidis, Leontios ^a,b   Vyrsokinos, Konstantinos ^a   Voigt, Karsten ^c   Zimmermann, Lars ^c,d   Gomez Agis, Fausto ^e   Dorren, Harm J S ^e   Sheng, Zhen ^f,g   Van Thourhout, Dries ^f   Moerl, Ludwig ^h   Kreissl, Jochen ^h   Sedighi, Behnam ^d   Scheytt, Johann Christoph ^d   Pagano, Annachiara ⁱ   Riccardi, Emilio ⁱ  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b Constelex Technology Enablers ^*  (Greece)

^c TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^d IHP   (Germany)

^e EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^f GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^g ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^h FRAUNHOFER HEINRICH HERTZ INSTITUTE   (Germany)

ⁱ TELECOM ITALIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Hybrid integration; microring resonators (MRRs); optical fiber communication; optical packet switching; optical signal processing; photonic integration; semiconductor optical amplifiers; silicon on insulator (SOI); terabit photonic router

Indexed keywords

HYBRID INTEGRATION; MICRORING RESONATORS (MRRS); OPTICAL FIBER COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL PACKET SWITCHING; OPTICAL SIGNALS; PHOTONIC INTEGRATION; SILICON-ON-INSULATOR (SOI); TERABIT;

COST EFFECTIVENESS; FIBER AMPLIFIERS; INTEGRATION; MONOLITHIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL FIBER FABRICATION; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL RESONATORS; OPTICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; OPTICAL SWITCHES; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; PACKET SWITCHING; PHOTONICS; ROUTERS; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIERS; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

PHOTONIC DEVICES;

EID: 77957840623     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2009.2038238     Document Type: Article

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