Abstract
We present a new all-optical multiwavelength sorter designed for asynchronous, variable-length packets. We demonstrate experimentally that the scheme efficiently implements sorting function without contention for 40 Gb/s variable packets at a BER of less than 10−9 without an error floor.
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