Micromechanical Wavelength Add/Drop Switching: From Device to Network Architecture

Conference on Optical Fiber Communication, Technical Digest Series

Volumn 86, Issue , 2003, Pages 253-254

  Ford, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEEMSTEERING; SWITCHING ARCHITECTURES; FREQUENCY; MICROMECHANICAL DEVICE; OPTICAL NOISE; OPTICAL TUNING; PASS BANDS;

BANDWIDTH; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COST EFFECTIVENESS; COSTS; ELECTRIC ATTENUATORS; ETALONS; LITHOGRAPHY; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL FILTERS; OPTICAL SWITCHES; SWITCHING SYSTEMS; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC; TRANSCEIVERS; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; BANDPASS FILTERS; MATCHED FILTERS; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL RECEIVERS;

MICROELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; OPTICAL FIBER COMMUNICATION;

EID: 1642564666     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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