Components for the implementation of free-space optical crossbars

Applied Optics

Volumn 35, Issue 35, 1996, Pages 6934-6944

  Barrett, C P ^a   Blair, P ^a   Buller, G S ^a   Neilson, D T ^a   Robertson, B ^a,b   Smith, E C ^a   Taghizadeh, M R ^a   Walker, A C ^a  

^a HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001412177     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.35.006934     Document Type: Article

References (26)

1. A. A. Sawchuck, B. K. Jenkins, C. S. Raghavendra, and A. Varma, “Optical crossbar networks,” Computer 20, 50-60 (1987).
2. K. H. Brenner and T. M. Merklein, “Implementation of an optical crossbar network based on directional switches,” Appl. Opt. 31, 2446-2451 (1992).
3. T. J. Cloonan, “Free-space optical implementation of a feedforward crossbar network,” Appl. Opt. 29, 2006-2012 (1990).
4. T. J. Cloonan and A. L. Lentine, “Self-routing crossbar packet switch employing free-space optics for chip-to-chip connections,” Appl. Opt. 30, 3721-3733 (1991).
5. J. E. Berthold, “Broadband electronic switching,” IEEE LCS Mag. 1, 35 (1990).
6. H. J. White, G. M. Proudley, C. Stace, N. A. Brownjohn, A. C. Walker, M. R. Taghizadeh, B. Robertson, C. P. Barrett, W. A. Crossland, J. R. Brocklehurst, M. J. Birch, M. Snook, and D. Vass, “Development of an optical free-space crossbar,” Inst. Phys. Conf. Ser. 139, 183-186 (1995).
7. J. W. Goodman, A. R. Dias, and L. M. Woody, “Fully parallel high-speed incoherent method for performing discrete Fourier transforms,” Opt. Lett. 2, 1-3 (1978).
8. R. I. MacDonald and E. M. Hara, “Optoelectronic broadband switching array,” Electron. Lett. 14, 502-503 (1978).
9. A. G. Kirk, S. Jamieson, H. Imam, and T. J. Hall, “Experimental implementation of an optoelectronic matrix-matrix multiplier which incorporates holographic multiple imaging,” Opt. Comput. Process. 2, 293-304 (1992).
10. A. G. Kirk, W. A. Crossland, and T. J. Hall, “A compact and scaleable free-space optical crossbar,” Proc. IEE 342, 137-141 (1991).
11. G. M. Proudley, C. Stace, and H. J. White, “Fabrication of 2D fiber optic arrays for an optical crossbar switch,” Opt. Eng. 33, 627-635 (1994).
12. I. Underwood, D. G. Vass, A. Ohara, D. C. Burns, P. W. Mcowan, and J. Gourlay, “Improving the performance of liquid-crystal-over-silicon spatial light modulators—issues and achievements,” Appl. Opt. 33, 2768-2774 (1994).
13. J. W. Goodman, “Fan-in and fan-out with optical interconnections,” Opt. Acta 32, 1489-1496 (1985).
14. J. M. Miller, “Synthesis of high efficiency diffractive optical elements,” Ph.D. dissertation (Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland, 1993).
15. J. M. Miller, M. R. Taghizadeh, J. Turunen, and N. Ross, “Multilevel-grating array generators: Fabrication error analysis and experiments,” Appl. Opt. 32, 2519-2525 (1993).
16. A. Vasara, M. R. Taghizadeh, J. Turunen, J. Westerholm, E. Noponen, H. Ichikawa, J. M. Miller, T. Jaakkola, and S. Kuisma, “Binary surface-relief gratings for array illumination in digital optics,” Appl. Opt. 31, 3320-3336 (1992).
17. R. L. Morrison, “Symmetries that simplify the design of spot array phase gratings,” J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 9, 464-471 (1992).
18. M. Ekberg, M. Larsson, S. Hard, J. Turunen, M. R. Taghiza-deh, J. Westerholm, and A. Vassara, “Multilevel grating array illuminators manufactured by electron-beam lithography,” Opt. Commun. 88, 37-41 (1992).
19. W. Parkes, S. Thoms, and C. D. W. Wilkinson, “Application of electron-beam lithography to pattern submicron features in a beam-forming grating,” Microelectron. Eng. 23, 465-468 (1994).
20. S. M. MacNeille, “Beam splitter,” U.S. patent 2,403,731 (July 1946).
21. J. L. Pezzaniti and R. A. Chipman, “Angular dependence of polarizing beam-splitter cubes,” Appl. Opt. 33, 1916-1929 (1994).
22. P. Meredith, G. S. Buller, and A. C. Walker, “Improved method for determining the optical constants of thin films and its application to molecular beam deposited polycrystalline layers,” Appl. Opt. 32, 5619-5627 (1993).
23. H. A. Macleod, Thin Film Optical Filters (Hilger, Bristol, UK, 1986).
24. F. B. McCormick, F. A. P. Tooley, J. L. Brubaker, J. M. Sasian T. J. Cloonan, A. L. Lentine, R. L. Morrison, R. J. Crisci, S. L. Walker, S. J. Hinterlong, and M. J. Herron, “Opto-mechanics of a free-space photonic switch: the components,” in Optome-chanics and Dimensional Stability, R. A. Paquin and D. Vuko-bratovich, eds., Proc. SPIE 1533, 97-114 (1991).
25. H. J. White, G. M. Proudley, C. Stace, N. A. Browjohn, R. Dawkins, A. C. Walker, M. R. Taghizadeh, C. P. Barrett, D. T. Neilson, W. A. Crossland, J. R. Brocklehurst, and M. J. Birch, “The OCPM demonstrator system,” in Vol. 12 of OSA Technical Digest Series (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C., 1995), Post deadline paper PPd1.
26. H. J. White, G. M. Proudley, C. Stace, N. A. Browjohn, A. C. Walker, M. R. Taghizadeh, B. Robertson, C. P. Barrett, W. A. Crossland, J. R. Brocklehurst, M. J. Birch, M. Snook, and D. Vass, “Development of an optical free-space crossbar,” Inst. Phys. Conf. Ser. 139, 183-186 (1995).