Suppressed modal interference switches with integrated curved amplifiers for scaleable photonic crossconnects

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 230-232

  Fish, Gregory A ^b   Coldren, Larry A ^a,b   DenBaars, Stephen P ^b  

^a IEEE

^b University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

Integrated optoeletronics; Optical switches

Indexed keywords

CROSSTALK; INTEGRATED OPTOELECTRONICS; INTERFERENCE SUPPRESSION; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; LIGHT INTERFERENCE; OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS;

SUPPRESSED MODAL INTERFERENCE (SMI);

OPTICAL SWITCHES;

EID: 0031996466     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.655367     Document Type: Article

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