A new modular, cost effective, strictly transparent wavelength interchanging cross-connect (WIXC) architecture, which utilizes only single pumped parametric wavelength converters, has been proposed. The benefits from the possible use of four-wave mixing (FWM) in semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) based wavelength converters in WIXC architectures, such as ability of reconfigurable operation and realization simplicity, have been discussed.


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    Title :

    A modular and re-configurable parametric wavelength interchanging cross-connect architecture


    Contributors:
    Tomkos, I. (author) / Antoniades, N. (author) / Syvridis, D. (author)


    Publication date :

    1999-01-01


    Size :

    227482 byte





    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English