Separated unicast/multicast splitter-and-delivery switch and its use in multicasting-capable optical cross-connect

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 368-370

  Du, Hong ^a   Hu, Weisheng ^a   He, Hao ^a   Zhang, Chunlei ^b   Dong, Yi ^a   Sun, Weiqiang ^a   Guo, Wei ^a   Jin, Yaohui ^a   Xiao, Shilin ^a  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b LANZHOU JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Multicasting capable; Optical cross connect; Splitter and delivery (SaD); Wavelength division multiplexing (WDM)

Indexed keywords

INPUT PORT; MULTICAST CONNECTIONS; MULTICAST TRAFFIC; OPTICAL AMPLIFIER; OPTICAL CROSS-CONNECT; SPLITTER-AND-DELIVERY (SAD); SPLITTING LOSS; STRICTLY NONBLOCKING; THROUGHPUT PERFORMANCE; UNICAST; UNICAST CONNECTIONS;

BIT ERROR RATE; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; MULTIPLEXING EQUIPMENT; OPTICAL SWITCHES; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

MULTICASTING;

EID: 69249181016     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2008.2011996     Document Type: Article

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