Packet-format and network-traffic transparent optical signal processing

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 22, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 2548-2556

  Kehayas, Efstratios ^a   Kanellos, George Theodore ^a   Stampoulidis, Leontios ^a   Tsiokos, Dimitris ^a   Pleros, Nikos ^a   Guekos, George ^b   Avramopoulos, Hercules ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Asynchronous optical packets; Burst traffic; Optical packet switching; Transparent all optical signal processing; Ultrafast nonlinear interferometer (UNI); Variable length optical packets

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTERFEROMETERS; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; OPTICAL DEVICES; PACKET NETWORKS; PACKET SWITCHING; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC; TRANSPARENCY;

ASYNCHRONOUS OPTICAL PACKETS; BURST TRAFFIC; OPTICAL PACKET SWITCHING; TRANSPARENT ALL OPTICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; ULTRAFAST NONLINEAR INTERFEROMETER (UNI); VARIABLE LENGTH OPTICAL PACKETS;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 9244224669     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2004.836766     Document Type: Article

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