Characterization and performance analysis of a TOAD switch employing a dual control pulse scheme in high-speed OTDM demultiplexer

IEEE Communications Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 316-318

  Le Minh, H ^a   Ghassemlooy, Z ^a   Ng, Wai Pang ^a  

^a NORTHUMBRIA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bit error rate; Control pulse; Inter channel crosstalk; Received power penalty; TOAD

Indexed keywords

CROSSTALK; DEMULTIPLEXING; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; TIME DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

CONTROL PULSE; DEMULTIPLEXER; DUAL CONTROLS; HIGH BIT RATES; INTER-CHANNEL CROSSTALK; OPTICAL TIME DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; PERFORMANCE ANALYSES; RECEIVED POWER PENALTY; SWITCHING WINDOWS; TERAHERTZ OPTICAL ASYMMETRIC DEMULTIPLEXER; TOAD;

BIT ERROR RATE;

EID: 58149507855     PISSN: 10897798     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LCOMM.2008.061299     Document Type: Article

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