A novel optical cross-connect architecture supporting both wavelength and waveband switching granularities, with reduced component requirements, is proposed. Experimental results indicate that a power penalty lower than 1 dB is introduced by this system.


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    Title :

    Novel wavelength/waveband cross connect architecture based on optical wavelength converters and a passive wavelength router


    Contributors:
    Politi, C. (author) / Klonidis, D. (author) / Tzanakaki, A. (author) / O'Mahony, M. (author) / Tomkos, I. (author)


    Publication date :

    2003-01-01


    Size :

    142568 byte





    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English




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