Bandwidth-flexible ROADMs as network elements

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

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Poole, Simon ^a   Frisken, Steve ^a   Roelens, Michaël ^a   Cameron, Craig ^a  

^a II VI Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; OPTICAL FIBERS;

BANDWIDTH-FLEXIBLE; NETWORK ELEMENT; SPECTRAL EFFICIENCIES; TRANSMISSION COSTS;

OPTICAL FIBER COMMUNICATION;

EID: 79960013588     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1364/ofc.2011.otue1     Document Type: Conference Paper

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