Performance of Rearrangeable Nonblocking 4 x 4 Switch Matrices on LiNb03

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 1988, Pages 1232-1240

  Hoffmann, Detlef ^a   Heidrich, Helmut ^a   Ahlers, Hildburg ^a   Fl¨ge, Michael K ^a  

^a FRAUNHOFER HEINRICH HERTZ INSTITUTE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER NETWORKS -- SWITCHING; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT; SIGNAL INTERFERENCE -- CROSSTALK; WAVEGUIDES, OPTICAL -- LOSSES;

OPTICAL SWITCH MATRICES; REARRANGEABLE NONBLOCKING SWITCH MATRICES;

SWITCHING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0024055371     PISSN: 07338716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/49.7844     Document Type: Article

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