Title :
Device/performance trade-offs in optical networks
Author :
Barry, Richard A.
Author_Institution :
Lincoln Lab., MIT, Lexington, MA, USA
Abstract :
The author focuses on the benefits of using different classes of optical and electro-optic devices for circuit switched all-optical WDM networks. Two scenarios are considered: passive LANs or MANs which contain only passive optical devices and configurable WANs which contain many all-optical switching nodes connected in a mesh topology
Keywords :
circuit switching; electro-optical devices; metropolitan area networks; optical communication equipment; optical fibre LAN; optical fibre networks; performance evaluation; tuning; wavelength division multiplexing; wide area networks; all-optical WDM networks; all-optical switching nodes; circuit switched all-optical networks; configurable WANs; device/performance tradeoffs; electro-optic devices; mesh topology; passive LANs; passive MANs; passive optical devices; Intelligent networks; Laser tuning; Optical devices; Optical fiber networks; Optical transmitters; Optical tuning; Passive networks; Switching circuits; Transceivers; Tunable circuits and devices;
Conference_Titel :
Circuits and Systems, 1996., IEEE 39th Midwest symposium on
Conference_Location :
Ames, IA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-3636-4
DOI :
10.1109/MWSCAS.1996.593090
