Wavelength-Routed Optical Multicast Packet Switch With Improved Performance

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 27, Issue 24, 2009, Pages 5657-5664

  Huang, Qirui ^a   Zhong, Wen De ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

multicast; Optical packet switching (OPS); semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA); wavelength routing

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008055203     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: 15582213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2009.2033452     Document Type: Article

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