Abstract
Broadband photonic transmission networks can be achieved not only with the fast response and massive parallelism of optical devices, but also by introducing wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) scheme. Wavelength converters are indispensable in each node of WDM photonic networks to increase the flexibility and the utilization factor.
© 1993 Optical Society of America
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