Wavelength add-drop switching using tilting micromirrors

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 904-911

  Ford, Joseph E ^a   Aksyuk, Vladimir A ^a   Bishop, David J ^a   Walker, James A ^a  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; MICROELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; MIRRORS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; SINGLE MODE FIBERS; SWITCHING; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

INSERTION LOSS; MICROMECHANICAL TILT MIRRORS; SWITCHING CONTRAST;

OPTICAL SWITCHES;

EID: 0032653423     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/50.762910     Document Type: Article

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