Extended baseline architecture for nonblocking photonic switching

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 771-777

  Wu, Chiung Shien ^a,b   Ma, Gin Kou ^a,b   Lin, Bao Shuh P ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (Taiwan)

^b INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Optical networks; Photonic switching networks

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY; FIBER OPTIC NETWORKS; INTERCONNECTION NETWORKS; OPTICAL FIBER COUPLING; OPTICAL SWITCHES; RECURSIVE FUNCTIONS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

EXTENDED BASELINE NETWORK; NONBLOCKING PHOTONIC SWITCHING;

SWITCHING NETWORKS;

EID: 0031142106     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/50.580811     Document Type: Article

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