Wavelength switching components for future photonic networks.

Wavelength switching components for future photonic networks.

This article provides a review of integrated laser and semiconductor optical amplifier components that have been configured to provide a variety of all-optical functions such as wavelength conversion, routing, signal regeneration, and add-drop multiplexing. The components have been devised so that t...

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Publicat a:IEEE Communications magazine 40, 9 (2002).
Autor principal: White, I.
Format: Article
Idioma:English
Matèries:
Add-drop multiplexing.
All-optical functions.
Arrayed waveguide router.
Cross-gain modulation.
Cross-phase modulation.
Fiber dispersion.
Four-wave mixing.
Integrated SOA distributed feedback laser.
Integrated laser components.
Multiwavelength network.
Photonic networks.
Photonic packet switching architectures.
Polarization mode dispersion.
Regenerative wavelength conversion.
Regenerative wavelength switching node.
Semiconductor optical amplifier.
Signal regeneration.
Tunable laser.
Wavelength conversion.
Wavelength routing.
Wavelength switching components.