Dynamically concatenated wavelength converters

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 352-354

  Zalesky, Andrew ^a   Tucker, Rodney S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Dynamic concatenation; Packet drop probability; Shared wavelength conversion

Indexed keywords

FIBER OPTICS; PROBABILITY;

CONVERSION RANGE; DYNAMIC CONCATENATION; IN PACKET; OPTICAL PACKETS; PACKET-DROP PROBABILITY; PROBABILISTIC MODEL; SHARED WAVELENGTH CONVERSION; WAVELENGTH CONVERTERS;

WASTEWATER;

EID: 39349107151     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2005.861962     Document Type: Article

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