Optical Switching

This up-to-date text offers comprehensive coverage of optical switching, technologies, devices, systems and networks, and illustrates their application in network elements and communications networks. The contributors provide a study of the principles and theory of optical switching devices, how they are built and put together into working systems. This valuable publication includes coverage of optical circuit, packet, and burst switching. Self-contained chapters cover the history, current and future states of optical switching, bringing together academic and industrial contributions, analytical and descriptive treatments, plus theory, experimentation, and practice.