Recent Advances in Optical Switches Using Silica-based PLC Technology

NTT Technical Review

Volumn 1, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 20-30

  Okuno, Masayuki ^a   Goh, Takashi ^b   Sohma, Shunichi ^a   Shibata, Tomohiro ^a  

^a NTT CORPORATION   (Japan)

^b NTT Network Innovation Laboratories   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INSERTION LOSS; OPTICAL PATH LAYER; PASSIVE DEVICES; PLANAR LIGHTWAVE CIRCUIT (PLC);

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; INTERNET; MATRIX ALGEBRA; SILICA; THIN FILM DEVICES; TIME DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; VIBRATIONS (MECHANICAL); WAVEGUIDES; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

OPTICAL SWITCHES;

EID: 2342588745     PISSN: 13483447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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