Multiwavelength opaque optical-crossconnect networks

IEICE Transactions on Electronics

Volumn E82-C, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 1361-1370

  Goldstein, Evan L ^a   Lin, Lih Y ^a   Track, Robert W ^a  

^a AT AND T LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Optical crossconnects; Optical networks; Optical switching; Wdm network architecture

Indexed keywords

INTERCONNECTION NETWORKS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS; OPTICAL SWITCHES; TRANSPONDERS; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

MULTIWAVELENGTH OPAQUE OPTICAL CROSSCONNECT NETWORKS; OPTOELECTRONIC CONVERSION;

FIBER OPTIC NETWORKS;

EID: 0032596229     PISSN: 09168524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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