10 GB S OPERATION OF A MULTIWAVELENGTH BUFFER ARCHITECTURE EMPLOYING A MONOLITHICALLY INTEGRATED ALL-OPTICAL INTERFEROMETRIC MICHELSON WAVELENGTH CONVERTER/

Optical cell buffering at 10 Gb/s is accomplished with a new simple mu ltiwavelength fiber loop memory technique. The architecture uses wavel ength converters to select the cell delay and in the experiment wavele ngth conversion is obtained by use of a monolithically integrated Mich elson interferometer employing semiconductor optical amplifiers.