Granularity in WDM networks: The role of fiber nonlinearities

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 1400-1402

  Forghieri, Fabrizio ^a  

^a AT AND T LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIT ERROR RATE; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

NETWORK GRANULARITY; OPTICAL COMPONENTS; OPTICAL FIBER NONLINEARITIES; OPTICAL NETWORKS;

FIBER OPTIC NETWORKS;

EID: 0030270222     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.536668     Document Type: Article

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