• DocumentCode
    2306203
  • Title

    Tunable SOA wavelength converter for optical packet switching router

  • Author

    Xu, Q. ; Ghazisaeidi, A. ; Doucet, S. ; Ben M´Sallem, Yousra ; Rusch, L.A. ; LaRochelle, S.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. Laval, Quebec City, QC, Canada
  • fYear
    2010
  • fDate
    7-11 Nov. 2010
  • Firstpage
    624
  • Lastpage
    625
  • Abstract
    We examine wavelength conversion for a packet switching router with in-band labels using efficient and cascadable all-optical wavelength conversion (AOWC) via a low-cost dual-pump SOA scheme. System performance is examined over a 35nm tuning range.
  • Keywords
    optical fibre networks; optical tuning; optical wavelength conversion; packet switching; semiconductor optical amplifiers; telecommunication network routing; cascadable all-optical wavelength conversion; in-band labels; low-cost dual-pump SOA scheme; optical packet switching router; tunable SOA wavelength converter;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    IEEE Photonics Society, 2010 23rd Annual Meeting of the
  • Conference_Location
    Denver, CO
  • ISSN
    -
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-5368-9
  • Electronic_ISBN
    -
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/PHOTONICS.2010.5699042
  • Filename
    5699042