Design and performance of delivery and coupling switch board for large scale optical path cross-connect system

IEICE Transactions on Communications

Volumn E81-B, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1203-1211

  Watanabe, Atsushi ^a   Okamoto, Satoru ^a   Koga, Masafumi ^a   Sato, Ken Ichi ^a   Okuno, Masayuki ^a  

^a NTT CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cross connect system; Optical communication; Optical path network; Optical switch

Indexed keywords

FIBER OPTIC NETWORKS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; OPTICAL DESIGN; OPTICAL FIBER COUPLING; OPTICAL SWITCHES;

OPTICAL PATH CROSS CONNECT (OPXC) SYSTEMS;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 0032090241     PISSN: 09168516     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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