Demonstration of an all-optical data format transparent WDM-to-TDM network node with extinction ratio enhancement for reconfigurable WDM networks

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 715-717

  Norte, David ^a   Willner, Alan E ^b  

^a AT and T   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); DATA STRUCTURES; FIBER OPTIC NETWORKS; FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC; TIME DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; TRANSPARENCY;

ALL OPTICAL DATA FORMAT TRANSPARENCY; EXTINCTION RATIO ENHANCEMENT; TIME DIVISION MULTIPLEXING NETWORKS; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING NETWORKS; WAVELENGTH SHIFTING;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 0030151482     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.491605     Document Type: Article

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