Photonic gateway: TDM-to-WDM-to-TDM conversion and reconversion at 40 Gbit/s (4 channels × 10 Gbits/s)

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 19, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 2810-2816

  Sotobayashi, Hideyuki ^a,c   Chujo, Wataru ^a   Kitayama, Ken Ichi ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGY CONVERSION; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; LIGHT SOURCES; TRANSPARENCY; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

PHOTONIC GATEWAY;

TIME DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

EID: 0013541544     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.19.002810     Document Type: Article

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