Performance of cascaded misaligned optical (De)multiplexers in multiwavelength optical networks

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 1073-1075

  Khrais, N N ^a   Elrefaie, A F ^b   Wagner, R E ^b   Ahmed, S ^a  

^a City University of New York   (United States)

^b TELCORDIA TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC FIELDS; FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; LASER THEORY; LIGHT MODULATORS; MULTIPLEXING EQUIPMENT; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL FILTERS; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; SIGNAL DISTORTION;

BUTTERWORTH FILTERS; LASER MISALIGNMENT TOLERANCES; MULTIWAVELENGTH OPTICAL NETWORKS; OPTICAL DEMULTIPLEXERS; RANDOM DATA SEQUENCE;

FIBER OPTIC NETWORKS;

EID: 0030212780     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.508742     Document Type: Article

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