N × N multiwavelength optical cross-connect based on tunable fiber bragg gratings

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 703-718

  Moon, Nam Su ^a,b   Kikuchi, Kazuro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) metropolitan or access network; Optical cross connect (OXC); Tunable fiber Bragg grating (TFBG)

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL CAPACITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CROSSTALK; ELECTROMAGNETIC DISPERSION;

OPTICAL CROSS-CONNECTS (OXC);

FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS;

EID: 0038293033     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2003.808632     Document Type: Conference Paper

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