High-density digital free-space photonic switches using micro-beam optical interconnections

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 358-360

  Yamamoto, Tsuyoshi ^a,b   Yamaguchi, Masayasu ^a,b   Hirabayashi, Katsuhiko ^b   Matsuo, Shinji ^c   Amano, Chikara ^c   Iwamura, Hidetoshi ^c   Kohama, Yoshitaka ^a,c   Kurokawa, Takashi ^c   Koyabu, Kunio ^c  

^a IEEE

^b NTT Network Service Systems Laboratories   (Japan)

^c NTT CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARRAYS; CROSSTALK; ELECTRIC LOSSES; EXCITONS; HETEROJUNCTIONS; LENSES; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT POLARIZATION; OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS; PHOTOTRANSISTORS; REFLECTION; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS;

EXCITON ABSORPTION REFLECTION SWITCH ARRAYS; HETEROJUNCTION PHOTOTRANSISTOR; MULTIPLE QUANTUM WELL REFLECTION MODULATOR; OPTICAL COMPONENTS; OPTICAL COUPLING; TWO DIMENSIONAL FIBER ARRAYS;

OPTICAL SWITCHES;

EID: 0030104742     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.481116     Document Type: Article

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