Compact versatile thermooptical space switch based on beam steering by a waveguide array

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 1399-1401

  Fluck E ^a   Horst, F ^a   Offrein, B J ^a   Germann, R ^a   Salemink, H W M ^a   Bona, G L ^a  

^a IBM RESEARCH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SILICA; SILICON NITRIDE;

OPTICAL BEAM STEERING; OPTICAL SPACE SWITCHES;

OPTICAL SWITCHES;

EID: 0342592246     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.803058     Document Type: Article

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