Wavelength converter technology

IEICE Transactions on Electronics

Volumn E82-C, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 338-347

  Stubkjaer, Kristian E ^a   Kloch, Allan ^a   Hansen, Peter Bukhave ^a   Poulsen, Henrik N ^a   Wolfson, David ^a   Jepsen, Kim Stokholm ^a   Clausen, Anders Thomas ^a   Limal, Emmanuel ^a   Buxens, Alvaro ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Cross connect; Optical network; Optical processing; Wavelength converter; WDM

Indexed keywords

FIBER OPTIC NETWORKS; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

CROSS CONNECT; OPTICAL WAVELENGTH CONVERTER TECHNOLOGY; SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIERS; WAVELENGTH CONVERSION;

FREQUENCY CONVERTERS;

EID: 0033350156     PISSN: 09168524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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