Packet switching, in short, is a method to deliver data across a computer network connection. The impact of packet switching cannot be understated, as it essentially makes today’s Internet function.

Integrated circuit technologies are enabling intelligent, chip-based, optical packet switch matrices. Rapid real-time re-configurability at the photonic layer using integrated circuit technologies is ...

Researchers from Vienna University of Technology have proposed and simulated a method for all-optical address recognition that uses the semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA)-based Mach-Zehnder ...