16 × 10 Gb/s WDM bidirectional gating in a semiconductor optical amplifier for optical cross connects exploiting network connection symmetry

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 702-704

  Yu, Jianjun ^a   Buxens, Alvaro ^b   Clausen, Anders ^a   Jeppesen, Palle ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b Tellabs Denmark   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBER OPTIC NETWORKS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS; OPTICAL SWITCHES; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

BIDIRECTIONAL GATING; LIGHT INJECTION; OPTICAL CROSS CONNECT; SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIER;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 0034206932     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.849090     Document Type: Article

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