Abstract
In WDM systems, the minimum granularity of all-optical connections is often a single wavelength. Thus the electronic layer must be used for any further sharing of optical bandwidth. All-optical connections using all-optical packet switching may be preferable since optical-to-electronic- to-optical conversion is expensive.
© 2002 Optical Society of America
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