Title :
All-optical processing technologies for flexible photonic networks
Author_Institution :
NTT Network Innovation Labs., NTT Corp., Kanagawa, Japan
Abstract :
Recent developments of all-optical processing technologies towards flexible photonic networks are reviewed covering ultrafast and wideband OTDM/WDM technologies including all-optical wavelength conversion, flexible optical signal quality monitoring, and adaptive dispersion compensation technologies.
Keywords :
high-speed optical techniques; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre networks; optical information processing; optical wavelength conversion; time division multiplexing; wavelength division multiplexing; adaptive dispersion compensation; all-optical processing; all-optical wavelength conversion; flexible optical signal quality monitoring; flexible photonic networks; ultrafast OTDM/WDM; wideband OTDM/WDM; Fiber nonlinear optics; Frequency; Nonlinear optics; Optical noise; Optical pulse generation; Optical saturation; Optical solitons; Optical wavelength conversion; Photonics; Ultrafast optics;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2004. LEOS 2004. The 17th Annual Meeting of the IEEE
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8557-8
DOI :
10.1109/LEOS.2004.1363366
