Title : 
A three stage cascade demonstration of a bit-rate flexible digital optical switching system using multimode optics and simple multimode-to-singlemode regenerators
         
        
            Author : 
Kawakami, Wataru ; Tandon, Vivek ; Noguchi, Kazuhiro
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Opt. Network Syst. Lab., NTT, Kanagawa, Japan
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
A three-stage cascade demonstration of bit-rate flexible optical switching systems using multimode optics and multimode-to-singlemode regenerators is presented. Improvement in insertion loss by introducing multimode optics and noise. Elimination of the regenerators are also investigated.
         
        
            Keywords : 
optical fibre networks; optical losses; optical noise; optical repeaters; photonic switching systems; switching networks; wavelength division multiplexing; bit-rate flexible digital optical switching system; bit-rate flexible optical switching systems; insertion loss; multimode optics; multimode-to-singlemode regenerators; noise; simple multimode-to-singlemode regenerators; three stage cascade demonstration;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Optical Communication, 1996. ECOC '96. 22nd European Conference on
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Oslo, Norway
         
        
            Print_ISBN : 
82-423-0418-1