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  • Optical Fiber Communication Conference
  • 1996 OSA Technical Digest Series (Optica Publishing Group, 1996),
  • paper WG1

Wavelength conversion devices

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Abstract

Wavelength converters will be essential devices to exploit the full potential of the wavelength dimension in wavelength-division multiplexed (WDM) networks. Their most important use will be: to avoid wavelength blocking in optical cross-connects, to allow wavelength paths to be allocated on a link by link basis thereby facilitating simpler network reconfiguration, protection switching, and wavelength referencing, and to perform routing functions together with optical filters (e.g., space switching in optical switches;. Based on experiments, we discuss different candidates for efficient wavelength converters with attention to expected system requirements.

© 1996 Optical Society of America

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