Photonic highway switches based on ring resonators used as frequency-selective components

Applied Optics

Volumn 35, Issue 30, 1996, Pages 5967-5978

  Weiershausen, W ^a   Zengerle, R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b DEUTSCHE TELEKOM LABORATORIES   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; BANDWIDTH; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); CROSSTALK; FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; FREQUENCY RESPONSE; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; RING LASERS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SWITCHING NETWORKS;

ADD DROP FILTER ELEMENTS; CHANNEL SPACING; FREE SPECTRAL RANGE; HIGHWAY SWITCHES; MACH-ZEHN INTERFEROMETERS; RING RESONATORS;

OPTICAL SWITCHES;

EID: 0030263742     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.35.005967     Document Type: Article

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