Recent advances in bubble-actuated photonic cross-connect switches

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4654, Issue , 2002, Pages 27-35

  Venkatesh, Shalini ^a   Son, Jin Woo ^b   Fouquet, Julie E ^a   Haven, Richard ^a   Schroeder, Dale W ^b   Guo, Hua Philip ^b   Wang, Wan Yu ^b   Russell, Paul ^b   Chow, Alan ^b   Hoffmann, Peter ^c  

^a AGILENT LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b AGILENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^c AGILENT TECHNOLOGIES   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; INSERTION LOSSES; LIGHT POLARIZATION; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PATTERN MATCHING; REFLECTION; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

BUBBLE ACTUATED PHOTONIC CROSS CONNECT SWITCHES; PLANAR LIGHTWAVE CIRCUIT;

OPTICAL SWITCHES;

EID: 0346037358     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/12.463854     Document Type: Article

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