Dynamic beam switching of vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers with integrated optical beam routers

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 505-507

  Fan, L ^b   Wu, M C ^a,b   Lee, H C ^c   Grodzinski, P ^c  

^a IEEE

^b University of California   (United States)

^c Phoenix Corporation Research Laboratories   (United States)

Author keywords

Beam steering; Laser beam steering; Multistage interconnection network; Optical interconnections; Optical phase shifters; Optical switches; Space division switching; Surface emitting lasers

Indexed keywords

INTEGRATED OPTICS; INTERCONNECTION NETWORKS; MIRRORS; OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS; OPTICAL SWITCHES; PHASE SHIFTERS; SWITCHING;

LASER BEAM STEERING; OPTICAL PHASE SHIFTERS; SPACE DIVISION SWITCHING; VERTICAL CAVITY SURFACE EMITTING LASERS;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 0031123822     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.559403     Document Type: Article

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