A high port-count wavelength-selective switch using a large scan-angle, high fill-factor, two-axis MEMS scanner array

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 18, Issue 13, 2006, Pages 1439-1441

  Tsai, Jui Che ^b   Wu, Ming C ^a,c  

^a IEEE

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS); Two axis micromirror; Wavelength division multiplexing (WDM); Wavelength selective switch (WSS)

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL CAPACITY; INSERTION LOSSES; MEMS; MIRRORS; SCANNING; WAVELENGTH;

CHANNEL SPACING; MICROMIRROR ARRAYS; TWO-DIMENSIONAL ARRAYS; WAVELENGTH SELECTIVE SWITCH (WSS);

SWITCHING THEORY;

EID: 33750025578     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2006.877235     Document Type: Article

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