Title :
Trends in the field of all-optical wavelength conversion and regeneration for communication up to 160 Gb/s
Author :
Leuthold, J. ; Freude, W. ; Boettger, G. ; Wang, J. ; Vorreau, P. ; Marculescu, A.
Author_Institution :
Karlsruhe Univ., Germany
Abstract :
Regenerative all-optical wavelength converters have matured. In particular single SOA schemes show a performance that is of interest for various pipeline processing applications in transparent networks.
Keywords :
optical fibre networks; optical repeaters; optical wavelength conversion; semiconductor optical amplifiers; 160 Gbit/s; SOA; all-optical wavelength conversion; all-optical wavelength converters; optical communication; optical regeneration; pipeline processing applications; transparent networks;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication, 2005. ECOC 2005. 31st European Conference on
Conference_Location :
IET
Print_ISBN :
0-86341-543-1
