A Low-Voltage 8 × 8 Ti:LiNbO3 Switch with a Dilated-Benes Architecture

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 1990, Pages 794-801

  Watson, James E ^a   Milbrodt, Michele A ^a   Bahadori, K ^a   Dautartas, Mino F ^a   Kemmerer, C T ^a   Moser, D T ^a   Schelling, Arthur W ^a   Murphy, Timothy O ^a   Veselka, John J ^a   Herr, Douglas A ^a  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MULTIPLEXING, TIME DIVISION; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES--DESIGN; SIGNAL INTERFERENCE--CROSSTALK; TELECOMMUNICATION LINKS, OPTICAL--MULTIPLEXING;

LITHIUM NIOBATE SWITCHES; OPTICAL SWITCHES; TIME-MULTIPLEXING SWITCHING;

DATA TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0025434020     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: 15582213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/50.54490     Document Type: Article

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