Reliability and Lifetime Estimation for Large-Scale Photonic Cross-Connect Switches of Photonic Networks

IEICE Transactions on Communications

Volumn E86-B, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1530-1538

  Noguchi, Kazuhiro ^a   Koga, Masafumi ^a  

^a NTT Network Innovation Laboratories   (Japan)

Author keywords

Optical switch; Photonic network; Reliability

Indexed keywords

ELECTROSTATICS; MICROELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; NETWORK PROTOCOLS;

PHOTONIC CROSS-CONNECT SWITCHES;

OPTICAL SWITCHES;

EID: 0141938394     PISSN: 09168516     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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