Design of an all-optical wavelength router based on spatial solitons

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 17, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 1670-1681

  Chiaraluce, Franco ^a,b,c   Gambi, Ennio ^b   Pierleoni, Paola ^b  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE   (Italy)

^c University of Ancona ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALL-OPTICAL WAVELENGTH ROUTERS;

FOUR WAVE MIXING; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL KERR EFFECT; SOLITONS; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

ROUTERS;

EID: 0032595047     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/50.788574     Document Type: Article

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