Optical components for WDM lightwave networks

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 85, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 1274-1307

  Borella, Michael S ^a,b   Jue, Jason P ^a   Banerjee, Dhritiman ^b   Ramamurthy, Byrav ^b   Mukherjee, Biswanath ^c  

^a DEPAUL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of California   (United States)

^c HEWLETT PACKARD COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Device issues; Experimental systems; Lightwave network; Optical amplifier; Optical fiber; Switching elements; Tunable receiver; Tunable transmitter; Wavelength converter; Wavelengthdivision multiplexing

Indexed keywords

FIBER OPTIC NETWORKS; FREQUENCY CONVERTERS; FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT; OPTICAL FIBERS;

TUNABLE RECEIVERS; TUNABLE TRANSMITTERS;

FIBER OPTIC COMPONENTS;

EID: 0031209243     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/5.622506     Document Type: Article

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