Optical switch architectures for emerging Colorless/Directionless/ Contentionless ROADM networks

2011 Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference, OFC/NFOEC 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Jensen, Richard A ^a  

^a POLATIS LTD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL MATRIX SWITCH; RECONFIGURABLE ARCHITECTURE; SWITCH ARCHITECTURES;

ARCHITECTURE; ELECTRIC SWITCHGEAR; ENGINEERS; FIBER OPTIC NETWORKS; FIBERS; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL SWITCHES;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 79959961300     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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8. R. Jensen et al., "Novel Non-Blocking Low Loss Scalable WSS Architecture," OFC'08 Conference, Paper OThA6 (2008).