DocumentCode
1282424
Title
Error-free transmission through 30 cascaded optical cross-connects suitable for dynamically routed WDM networks
Author
Tzanakaki, A. ; Guild, K.M. ; Simeonidou, D. ; O´Mahony, M.J.
Author_Institution
Dept. of Electron. Syst. Eng., Essex Univ., Colchester, UK
Volume
35
Issue
20
fYear
1999
fDate
9/30/1999 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage
1755
Lastpage
1756
Abstract
The concatenation performance of an optical cross-connect node performing reconfigurable wavelength routing utilising an arrayed waveguide grating and all-optical tuneable wavelength converters is presented. Error-free transmission after concatenation of 30 such nodes is demonstrated
Keywords
optical fibre networks; optical interconnections; telecommunication network routing; wavelength division multiplexing; all-optical tuneable wavelength converters; arrayed waveguide grating; cascaded optical cross-connects; concatenation performance; dynamically routed WDM networks; error-free transmission; optical cross-connect node; reconfigurable wavelength routing;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Electronics Letters
Publisher
iet
ISSN
0013-5194
Type
jour
DOI
10.1049/el:19991195
Filename
811166
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