Xp. Chen et al., EXPERIMENTAL DEMONSTRATION OF FAST SIMULTANEOUS WAVELENGTH SWITCHING AND TIME DEMULTIPLEXING USING A NONLINEAR-OPTICAL LOOP MIRROR, IEEE photonics technology letters, 9(7), 1997, pp. 919-921
Simultaneous all-optical high-speed wavelength switching and time demu
ltiplexing is experimentally demonstrated using a nonlinear optical lo
op mirror, an integrated passive wavelength router, and fast optical s
pace switches. With >1.2-GHz wavelength switching speeds and 2.5 Gb/s
time demultiplexing speeds, both packet switching and isolated-bit ext
raction are demonstrated. The time switching can potentially be applie
d to data rates >100 Gb/s.