P. Gavignet et al., PENALTY-FREE 2.5 GBIT S PHOTONIC SWITCHING USING A SEMICONDUCTOR 4-GATE-ARRAY MODULE/, Electronics Letters, 31(6), 1995, pp. 487-488
A penalty-Free photonic switching experiment at 2.5 Gbit/s using a gat
e-array module of four semiconductor optical amplifiers, flip-chip-mou
nted on a silicon motherboard and provided with highspeed electronic d
rivers, is reported for the first time. Switching times shorter than 4
00 ps are obtained, allowing for guardbands as short as two bits betwe
en consecutive cells.