All-optical crossbar switch using wavelength division multiplexing and vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers

Applied Optics

Volumn 38, Issue 29, 1999, Pages 6176-6183

  Webb, Brian ^a   Louri, Ahmed ^a  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

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EID: 0000975545     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.38.006176     Document Type: Article

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