Optical backplane with free-space optical interconnections using tunable beam deflectors and a mirror for bookshelf-assembled terabit per second class asynchronous transfer mode switch

Optical Engineering

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1332-1342

  Hirabayashi, Katsuhiko ^a,b,c,d,e   Yamamoto, Tsuyoshi ^a,d,f,g   Hino, Shigeki ^a,c,h,i  

^a NTT CORPORATION   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^d JAPAN SOCIETY OF APPLIED PHYSICS   (Japan)

^e Institute of Electronics   (Japan)

^f KANSAI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^g IEEE

^h Musashino Electrical Communication Lab   (Japan)

ⁱ Institute of Electronics   (Japan)

Author keywords

Asynchronous transfer mode switch; Bookshelf; Deflector; Free space optical interconnection; Liquid crystal; Microprism; Optical backplane; Printed circuit board

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001766104     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.601968     Document Type: Article

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