Integrated signal monitoring and connection verification in MEMS optical crossconnects

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 885-887

  Lin, Lih Y ^a,b   Goldstein, Evan L ^a,b   Lunardi, Leda M ^c  

^a AT AND T LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

^b Tellium Inc   (United States)

^c JDS UNIPHASE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICROELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; MICROMACHINING; MIRRORS; OPTICAL BEAM SPLITTERS; PHOTODETECTORS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL ENCODING; SWITCHING SYSTEMS;

HYBRID INTEGRATED PHOTODETECTOR; MICROELECTROMECHANICAL SYSTEM OPTICAL CROSSCONNECT; MONOLITHICALLY INTEGRATED BEAMSPLITTER; ON CHIP MICROMIRROR DITHERING; SIGNAL MONITORING MODULE;

OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS;

EID: 0034230215     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.853537     Document Type: Article

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