Solid-state optical switches using planar lightwave circuit and IC-on-PLC technologies

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5625, Issue PART 2, 2005, Pages 767-775

  Sohma, Shunichi ^a   Mino, Shinji ^a   Watanabe, Toshio ^a   Ishii, Motohaya ^a   Shibata, Tomohiro ^a   Takahashi, Hiroshi ^a  

^a NTT CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

IC on PLC technology; Mach Zehnder interferometer; Planar lightwave circuit; Silica based waveguide; Solid state optical switch; Thermo optic effect

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL CAPACITY; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; INTERFEROMETERS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; RELIABILITY; SILICA; SOLID STATE DEVICES; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

IC-ON-PLC TECHNOLOGY; MACH-ZEHNDER INTERFEROMETER; PLANAR LIGHTWAVE CIRCUIT; SILICA-BASED WAVEGUIDES; SOLID-STATE OPTICAL SWITCH; THERMO OPTIC EFFECT;

OPTICAL SWITCHES;

EID: 18944393698     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.579684     Document Type: Conference Paper

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