As traffic volumes carried by optical networks continue to grow by tens of percent year over
year, we are rapidly approaching the capacity limit of the conventional communication band …

This paper introduces an approach to solving the fundamental scalability problem of all-
optical packet switching wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) access networks. Current …

Forthcoming capacity scaling requirements of optical networks and advances in optical fiber
communications beyond the omnipresent single-mode fiber operating over the conventional …

The ongoing growth of data traffic from existing and new applications poses a challenge to
the packet-switched network infrastructure. High-capacity transport can be achieved in such …

The current fast-growing Internet traffic is demanding more and more network capacity every
day. The concept of wavelength-division multiplexing has provided us an opportunity to …

Advances in optical technology now allow practical reconfigurable wavelength networks to
be constructed. These networks use wavelength-switching components to dynamically route …

Optical Switching is the most comprehensive and up to date reference book on its subject.
After three decades of research and development efforts, optical switching has started to be …

Celebrating the 20^ th anniversary of Optics Express, this paper reviews the evolution of
optical fiber communication systems, and through a look at the previous 20 years attempts to …

The rapid advances in dense wavelength-division multiplexing technology with hundreds of
wavelengths per fiber and worldwide fiber deployment have brought about a tremendous …

Wavelength-division multiplexing is currently being deployed in telecommunications
networks in order to satisfy the increased demand for capacity brought about by the …