Architectural Considerations for Photonic Switching Networks

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 1988, Pages 1209-1226

  Hinton, H Scott ^a  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SWITCHING THEORY -- SWITCHING FUNCTIONS;

DIRECTIONAL COUPLERS; OPTICAL RELATIONAL SYSTEM; PHOTONIC SORTING NETWORK; PHOTONIC SWITCHING NETWORKS; SPATIAL LIGHT MODULATORS;

SWITCHING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0024054609     PISSN: 07338716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/49.7842     Document Type: Article

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