Error-free transmission through 30 cascaded optical cross-connects suitable for dynamically routed WDM networks

Electronics Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 20, 1999, Pages 1755-1756

  Tzanakaki, A ^a   Guild, K M ^a   Simeonidou, D ^a   O'Mahony, M J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CODING ERRORS; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; FIBER OPTIC NETWORKS; OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

ARRAYED WAVEGUIDE GRATING; OPTICAL CROSS CONNECT; TUNABLE WAVELENGTH CONVERTERS;

DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 0033195587     PISSN: 00135194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/el:19991195     Document Type: Article

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