supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 60771045);the National Defense Pre-research Foundation of China (Nos. 9140A23060509DZ0227 and 9140A02060410DZ0225);the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (No. ZYGX2010J007);the Open Fund of the Key Laboratory of Information Photonics and Optical Communications (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications) under the Ministry of Education of China
A new optical label switching system with coherently detected implicit spectral amplitude code (SAC) labels is proposed in this letter. The implicit SAC labels are recognized using a frequency-swept local light sour...