Flexible waveband optical networking without guard bands using novel 8-Skip-0 banding filters

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 579-581

  Chandrasekhar, S ^a   Doerr, C R ^a   Buhl, L L ^a  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Band filters; Waveband networking

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; BIT ERROR RATE; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SINGLE MODE FIBERS; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

BAND FILTERS; PLANAR LIGHTWAVE CIRCUIT TECHNOLOGY; SILICA WAVEGUIDE; WAVEBAND NETWORKING;

OPTICAL FILTERS;

EID: 14844354899     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2004.842385     Document Type: Article

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