Experimental demonstration of multicast in an optical-label switching router with mixed data rates of 10 Gb/s and 2.5 Gb/s

This paper experimentally demonstrates multicast packet forwarding in an optical-label switching router with mixed data rates of 10 Gb/s and 2.5 Gb/s. The demonstration employs multi-wavelength conversion in integrated Mach-Zehnder interferometer with semiconductor optical amplifiers. (2 pages)