Proposed Optical Cross Connect Using a Planar Arrangement of Beam Steerers

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 197-199

  Doerr, C R ^a   Dragone, C ^a  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Beam steering; Optical communication; Optical phase shifters; Optical planar waveguide components; Optical switches; Phased arrays

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PHASE SHIFTERS;

BEAM STEERERS; OPTICAL CROSSCONNECTS;

OPTICAL SWITCHES;

EID: 0033079898     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.740702     Document Type: Article

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