Compact PLC-based transponder aggregator for colorless and directionless ROADM

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

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Watanabe, Toshio ^a   Suzuki, Kenya ^a   Goh, Takashi ^a   Hattori, Kuninori ^a   Mori, Atsushi ^a   Takahashi, Tetsuo ^a   Sakamoto, Tadashi ^a   Morita, Keiichi ^a   Sohma, Shunichi ^a   Kamei, Shin ^a  

^a NTT CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL FIBERS; TRANSPONDERS;

CONTENTIONLESS; PLC TECHNOLOGY; SMALL FOOTPRINTS; TUNABLE FILTERS;

OPTICAL FIBER COMMUNICATION;

EID: 79959965720     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1364/ofc.2011.otud3     Document Type: Conference Paper

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