Compact, 4 x 4 InGaAsP-InP optical crossconnect with a scaleable architecture

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 1256-1258

  Fish, Gregory A ^a   Mason, Beck ^a   Coldren, Larry A ^a,b   Denbaars, Steven P ^a  

^a University of California   (United States)

^b IEEE

Author keywords

Integrated optoelectronics; Optical switches

Indexed keywords

INSERTION LOSSES; INTEGRATED OPTOELECTRONICS; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; LIGHT INTERFERENCE; OPTICAL SWITCHES; SEMICONDUCTING INDIUM COMPOUNDS;

OPTICAL CROSSCONNECTS;

OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS;

EID: 0032163461     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.705608     Document Type: Article

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