Acousto-optic switch with a near rectangular passband for WDM systems

Electronics Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 542-543

  Smith, D A ^a   Rashid, H ^a   Chakravarthy, R S ^a   Agboatwalla, A M ^a   Patil, A A ^a   Bao, Z ^a   Imam, N ^a   Smith, S W ^a   Baran, J E ^b   Jackel, J L ^b   Kallman, J ^c  

^a Case Western Reserve University   (United States)

^b TELCORDIA TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^c LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acousto optical switches; Wavelength division multiplexing

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTOOPTICAL DEVICES; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT MANUFACTURE; FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; LITHIUM COMPOUNDS; PHASE CONTROL;

ACOUSTOOPTIC SWITCH; LITHIUM NIOBATE; RECTANGULAR PASSBAND; SIDELOBE SUPPRESSION; WAVELENGTH ROUTING SWITCH;

OPTICAL SWITCHES;

EID: 3042862959     PISSN: 00135194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/el:19960355     Document Type: Article

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