10-Gb/s/port gated divider passive combiner optical switch with single-mode-to-multimode combiner

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 162-164

  Tajima, Akio ^a   Kitamura, Naoki ^a   Takahashi, Seigo ^a   Kitamura, Shotaro ^a   Maeno, Yoshiharu ^a   Suemura, Yoshihiko ^a   Henmi, Naoya ^a  

^a NEC CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Multimode waveguides; Multiprocessor interconnection; Optical interconnections; Optical power dividers combiners; Optical switches; Semiconductor optical amplifier

Indexed keywords

CROSSBAR EQUIPMENT; INTERCONNECTION NETWORKS; OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PASSIVE NETWORKS; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

OPTICAL POWER COMBINERS; OPTICAL POWER DIVIDERS;

OPTICAL SWITCHES;

EID: 0031646633     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.651149     Document Type: Article

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