A Class of Directional-Coupler-Based Photonic Switching Networks

IEEE Transactions on Communications

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 1993, Pages 599-603

  Jajszczyk, Andrzej ^a  

^a Franco Polish school of New Information and Communication Technologies ^*  (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN; OPTICAL FIBER COUPLING; OPTICAL SWITCHES;

CHARACTERISTICS; DIRECTIONAL COUPLER BASED PHOTONIC SWITCHING NETWORKS; MULTICAST ARCHITECTURE;

SWITCHING NETWORKS;

EID: 0027580501     PISSN: 00906778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/26.223784     Document Type: Article

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