{"title":"An optical packet switch employing shared tunable parametric wavelength converters","authors":"C. Okonkwo, R. C. Almeida, K. Guild","doi":"10.1109/PS.2008.4804233","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The analysis of a shared-per-node OPS switch employing parametric wavelength converters (SPN-PWC) is reported. The results demonstrate a 38 - 63% reduction in the number of converters when SPN-PWC is compared with SPN employing single-channel wavelength converters.","PeriodicalId":113046,"journal":{"name":"2008 International Conference on Photonics in Switching","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2008-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"2008 International Conference on Photonics in Switching","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PS.2008.4804233","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
The analysis of a shared-per-node OPS switch employing parametric wavelength converters (SPN-PWC) is reported. The results demonstrate a 38 - 63% reduction in the number of converters when SPN-PWC is compared with SPN employing single-channel wavelength converters.