An approach toward the holy grail in all-optical circuit switching: the monster all-optical crossconnect

Nabeel Agha Riza; M. Junaid Mughal

doi:10.1117/12.543166

15 December 2003 An approach toward the holy grail in all-optical circuit switching: the monster all-optical crossconnect

Nabeel Agha Riza, M. Junaid Mughal

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Proceedings Volume 5260, Applications of Photonic Technology 6; (2003) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.543166
Event: Applications of Photonic Technology, 2003, Quebec City, Québec, Canada

Abstract

A new robust approach is presented for achieving very large fiber port count all-optical crossconnect switches. This three dimensional optics-based switch has built-in alignment capabilities with fault-tolerance, allowing graceful port count scaling.

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Nabeel Agha Riza and M. Junaid Mughal "An approach toward the holy grail in all-optical circuit switching: the monster all-optical crossconnect", Proc. SPIE 5260, Applications of Photonic Technology 6, (15 December 2003); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.543166

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