Meeting the need for fiber-optic transmission speed: Ultrafast all-optical switching techniques for TDMA fiber-optic networks

IEEE Circuits and Devices Magazine

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 17-33

  Zhang, Jian Guo ^a  

^a ASIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBER OPTIC NETWORKS; FOUR WAVE MIXING; PHASE LOCKED LOOPS; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; TIME DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

OPTICAL TIME DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS (OTDMA);

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 0031236133     PISSN: 87553996     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/101.621604     Document Type: Article

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