Colorless and directionless multi-degree reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexers

WOCC2010 Technical Program - The 19th Annual Wireless and Optical Communications Conference: Converging Communications Around the Pacific

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Ji, Philip N ^a   Aono, Yoshiaki ^b  

^a NEC LABORATORIES AMERICA   (United States)

^b NEC CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Colorless; Directionless; Non blocking; Reconfigurable optical add drop multiplexer; Wavelength cross connect; Wavelength selective switch

Indexed keywords

COLORLESS; DIRECTIONLESS; NON-BLOCKING; RECONFIGURABLE OPTICAL ADD/DROP MULTIPLEXER; WAVELENGTH-SELECTIVE SWITCH;

COMMUNICATION; FIBER OPTICS; MULTIPLEXING; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

MULTIPLEXING EQUIPMENT;

EID: 77955599950     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WOCC.2010.5510664     Document Type: Conference Paper

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