Large-capacity optical path cross-connect system for WDM photonic transport network.

This paper demonstrates our previously developed large-capacity optical path cross-connect (OPXC) system. The major hurdles to be cleared are (1) establishment of a highly modular architecture that facilitates hardware design and upgrading and (2) the development of an OPXC demonstrator designed to...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:	IEEE Journal on selected areas in communications 16, 7 (1998).
Main Author:	Koga, M.
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Subjects:	320 Gbit/s. WDM photonic transport network. Compact size packaging. Delivery-and-coupling type optical switch. Dense packaging. Four-channel optical regenerators. Hardware design. Large-capacity system. Modular architecture. Multiple node connection. Optical path cross-connect system. Performance test results. Planar lightwave circuit technologies. System design. Throughput capacity. Wavelength-demultiplexer.