Highly flexible 4 × 4 optical crosspoint packet switch matrix for optical multicast operations

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 911-913

  Lee, Sheng Chyan ^a   Varrazza, Riccardo ^a   Ansell, Oliver ^a   Yu, Siyuan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cross connect; Integrated optoelectronics; Optical crosspoint switch (OXS); Optical packet switching (OPS); Optical switch matrix; Optoelectronics devices

Indexed keywords

BIT ERROR RATE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HETEROJUNCTIONS; INTEGRATED OPTOELECTRONICS; MULTICASTING; OPTICAL SWITCHES; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PACKET SWITCHING; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS;

OPTICAL CROSSPOINT SWITCH (OXS); OPTICAL PACKET SWITCHING; OPTICAL SWITCH MATRIX;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 17644413216     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2005.843961     Document Type: Article

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