Liquid crystal-based self-aligning 2 × 2 wavelength routing module

Optical Engineering

Volumn 40, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 1521-1528

  Sumriddetchkajorn, S ^a   Riza, N A ^a   Sengupta, D K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Electro optic switches; Fiber optics switches; Liquid crystal devices; Optical fiber communications; Optical interconnections

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; CROSSTALK; FIBER OPTICS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIQUID CRYSTALS; OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS; ROUTERS;

QUARTER WAVEPLATES (QWP);

OPTICAL SWITCHES;

EID: 0035414540     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.1387988     Document Type: Article

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