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Optical Fiber Telecommunications VB, 5th Edition
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Optical Fiber Telecommunications VB, 5th Edition

by Ivan Kaminow, Tingye Li, Alan E. Willner
July 2010
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
928 pages
33h 42m
English
Academic Press
Content preview from Optical Fiber Telecommunications VB, 5th Edition
to an increase in the required drive power to the SOAs and a consequent increase
in the overall power consumption. Further, the accumulation of noise as the optical
signal passes through a large switch negates one of the prime original reasons for
seeking optical transparency, because a large part of the network noise budget is
consumed in the switches.
Electronic Switch Fabrics
A typical high-capacity commercial single-chip electronic cross-connect currently
provides throughputs of around 50 Gbit/s at a line rate of 4 Gb/s, with a power
consumption of 16 W [60]. This power consumption corresponds to 30 pJ of
energy per bit. Szymanski et al. [61] have ...
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ISBN: 9780123741721