Noise and crosstalk limitations in optical cross-connects with reshaping wavelength converters

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 1294-1301

  Öhlén, Peter ^a  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CROSSTALK; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; FIBER OPTIC NETWORKS; FREQUENCY CONVERTERS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

JITTER; OPTICAL CROSS CONNECTS; OPTICAL CROSSTALK; OPTICAL NOISE; WAVELENGTH CONVERTERS;

OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS;

EID: 0343374860     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/50.779149     Document Type: Article

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