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We describe our recent work on all-optical serial-to-parallel converters (SPCs), from the all-optical switches employed in the SPCs to the application of the SPCs for packet processing. The ability to handle ultrafast optical signals is enabled by types of surface-normal optical switches employing different switching mechanisms: one is based on rapid electron trapping in low-temperature-grown Be-doped...