Waveband routed optical packet switch: Implementation and performance evaluation

Optical Engineering

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2006, Pages

  Politi, Christina ^a   Klonidis, Dimitrios ^b   Tzanakaki, Anna ^b   O'Mahony, Mike ^a   Tomkos, Ioannis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b ATHENS INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY   (Greece)

Author keywords

Optical circuits; Optical communications; Optical processing; Switching

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL SWITCHES; PACKET SWITCHING; ROUTERS;

OPTICAL CIRCUIT; OPTICAL PACKET SWITCH; OPTICAL PROCESSING;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 33748597414     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: 15602303     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.2195369     Document Type: Article

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