Numerical study of cascadability performance of continuous spectrum wavelength blocker/selective switch at 10/40/160 Gb/s

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 18, Issue 24, 2006, Pages 2608-2610

  Sygletos, Stelios ^a   Tzanakaki, Anna ^a   Tomkos, Ioannis ^a  

^a ATHENS INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY   (Greece)

Author keywords

Optical filters; Optical switches; Wavelength division multiplexing (WDM)

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL FILTERS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

CASCADABILITY; PASSBAND FILTER; WAVELENGTH BLOCKER; WAVELENGTH SELECTIVE SWITCHES;

OPTICAL SWITCHES;

EID: 33845724156     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2006.887333     Document Type: Article

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