Title :
Timing control implications for widely tunable lasers in stacked optical labelling
Author :
Yu, Yonglin ; O´Dowd, R. ; Jennen, Jean ; Vlachos, Kyriakos
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electron. & Electr. Eng., Univ. Coll. Dublin, Ireland
Abstract :
By a time-resolved spectrum technique, the wavelength switching speed of a sampled-grating DBR laser has been investigated and in particular their statistical distributions have implications for stacked optical labelling intended for IP packet routing.
Keywords :
Internet; distributed Bragg reflector lasers; laser tuning; multiprotocol label switching; optical communication equipment; routing protocols; semiconductor lasers; statistical analysis; timing; IP packet routing; sampled-grating DBR laser; stacked optical labelling; statistical distributions; time-resolved spectrum technique; timing control implications; wavelength switching speed; widely tunable lasers; Delay effects; Labeling; Laser modes; Optical control; Optical packet switching; Optical transmitters; Switches; Timing; Tunable circuits and devices; Wavelength measurement;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2002. LEOS 2002. The 15th Annual Meeting of the IEEE
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7500-9
DOI :
10.1109/LEOS.2002.1133914
