Cascading of a non-blocking WDM cross-connect based on all-optical wavelength converters for routing and wavelength slot interchanging

Electronics Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 19, 1997, Pages 1647-1648

  Pedersen, R J S ^a   Jorgensen B F ^a   Mikkelsen, B ^a   Nissov, M ^a   Stubkjaer, K E ^a   Wunstel K ^b   Daub, K ^b   Lach, E ^b   Laube, G ^b   Idler, W ^b   Schilling, M ^b   Doussiere, P ^b   Pommerau, F ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b NOKIA RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Optical communication equipment; Wavelength division multiplexing

Indexed keywords

CASCADE CONNECTIONS; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); CROSSTALK; FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION; OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS;

OPTICAL CROSS CONNECTS; OPTICAL WAVELENGTH CONVERTERS;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT;

EID: 0031234335     PISSN: 00135194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/el:19971094     Document Type: Article

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