Evolution of the acousto-optic wavelength routing switch

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1005-1019

  Smith, David A ^{a,b,n,o,p,q,r}   Chakravarthy, Rohini S ^a,n,s,t,u,v   Bao, Zhuoyu ^a,t,w,x   Baran, Jane E ^b   Jackel, Janet L ^b   D'Alessandro, Antonio ^b,c,g   Fritz, Daniel J ^d,h,i,j   Huang, S H ^e   Zou, X Y ^e   Hwang, S M ^e   Willner, Alan E ^e,n   Li, Kathryn D ^f,k,l,m  

^a Case Western Reserve University

^b TELCORDIA TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^c SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^d UNITED TECHNOLOGIES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^e University of Southern California ^*  (United States)

^f Focused Research Inc   (United States)

^g POLITECNICO DI BARI   (Italy)

^h UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD   (United States)

ⁱ UTRC   (United States)

^j Uniphase Telecommunications Products   (United States)

^k PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^l STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^m New Focus and Focused Research Inc

ⁿ IEEE

^o MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^p Northrop Corporation

^q Singer Corporation

^r OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA   (United States)

^s INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS   (India)

^t CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^u MISSOURI UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^v Bay Networks   (United States)

^w OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^x Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); CROSSTALK; FIBER OPTIC NETWORKS; FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT; OPTICAL FILTERS; OPTICAL SWITCHES;

ACOUSTOOPTICAL TUNABLE FILTERS; WAVELENGTH ROUTING; WAVELENGTH SELECTIVE OPTICAL SWITCHING;

ACOUSTOOPTICAL DEVICES;

EID: 0030164837     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/50.511601     Document Type: Article

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