Wavelength division multiplexed add/drop ring technology in corporate backbone networks

Optical Engineering

Volumn 37, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 3218-3228

  Bona, Gian Luca ^a,b   Denzel, Wolfgang E ^a   Offrein, Bert J ^a   Germann, Roland ^a   Salemink, Huub W M ^a   Horst, Folkert ^a  

^a IBM RESEARCH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Add drop multiplexer; Add drop ring; Optical communications; Resonant couplers; Waveguides; Wavelength division multiplexing

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000321874     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.601997     Document Type: Article

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