An OXC Architecture Suitable for High Density WDM Wavelength Routed Networks

Photonic Network Communications

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 77-88

  Stavdas, Alexandros ^a   Avramopoulos, Hercules ^a,c   Protonotarios, Emmanuel N ^a,d,e   Midwinter, John E ^b  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^e LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Optical crossconnect; Optical switching; OXC; WDM; WDM crossconnect

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033455408     PISSN: 1387974X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1010033201312     Document Type: Article

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