40-Gb/s Optical Packet Buffer Using Conversion/Dispersion-Based Delays

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 616-623

  Yilmaz, Omer Faruk ^a   Nuccio, Scott R ^a   Wu, Xiaoxia ^a   Willner, Alan E ^a  

^a University of Southern California   (United States)

Author keywords

Nonlinear optics; optical buffer; optical fiber communication; optical packet switching; optical signal processing

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008049276     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: 15582213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2009.2030900     Document Type: Article

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