Recent advances in develo** nonlinear optical techniques for processing serial digital
information at high speed are reviewed. The field has been transformed by the advent of …

Tunable semiconductor lasers have been listed in numerous critical technology lists for
future optical communication and sensing systems. This paper summarizes a tutorial that …

The state of the art of modern lightwave system design Recent advances in lightwave
technology have led to an explosion of high-speed global information systems throughout …

Telecommunication networks are experiencing a dramatic increase in demand for capacity,
much of it related to the exponential takeup of the Internet and associated services. To …

All-optical label swap** is a promising approach to ultra-high packet-rate routing and
forwarding directly in the optical layer. In this paper, we review results of the DARPA Next …

We present a 1× 2 all-optical packet switch. All the processing of the header information is
carried out in the optical domain. The optical headers are recognized by employing the two …

A comprehensive treatise on the components and devices of the lightwave explosion
Multiple advances in lightwave technology have led to a veritable overload of global …

Wavelength-division multiplexing is currently being deployed in telecommunications
networks in order to satisfy the increased demand for capacity brought about by the …

In this paper, promising technologies and a network architecture are presented for future
optical packet switched networks. The overall network concept is presented and the major …

A photonic label switching router (PLSR) of which the photonic label processing is based
upon optical code correlation, is investigated. To resolve the electronic router's bottleneck in …