Integrated optical, wavelength selective, acoustically tunable 2 × 2 switches (add-drop multiplexers) in LiNbO3

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 263-268

  Wehrmann, Frank ^a,c,d,e   Harizi, Christiane ^a   Herrmann, Harald ^a,e,f   Rust, Ulrich ^a,b   Sohler, Wolfgang ^a   Westenhöfer, Susanne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADERBORN   (Germany)

^b IEEE

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^d HAMBURG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^e German Physical Society

^f LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTOOPTICAL DEVICES; CROSSTALK; ELECTRIC CONVERTERS; ELECTRIC LOSSES; FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LITHIUM COMPOUNDS; MULTIPLEXING EQUIPMENT; OPTICAL SWITCHES;

ACOUSTOOPTIC CONVERTERS; ADD DROP MULTIPLEXERS; BAR STATE ROUTING; CROSS STATE ROUTING; FIBER TO FIBER INSERTION LOSS; FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING COMMUNICATION; PASSIVE POLARIZATION SPLITTERS; POLARIZATION INSENSITIVITY; RESIDUAL POLARIZATION;

INTEGRATED OPTOELECTRONICS;

EID: 0030156146     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/2944.577374     Document Type: Article

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