Abstract
This paper reviews opportunities and challenges of all-optical devices for transparent networks. Trends and latest all-optical regeneration and wavelength conversion techniques are discussed with an emphasis on devices exploiting semiconductor optical amplifier nonlinearities.
© 2004 Optical Society of America
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