Demonstration for rearrangeable nonblocking 8×8 matrix optical switches based on extended banyan networks

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 15, 2007, Pages 9347-9356

  Sun, De Gui ^a,c   Zha, Ying ^b,c   Liu, Tiegen ^b   Zhang, Ying ^c   Li, Xiaoqi ^c   Fu, Xiuhua ^a  

^a CHANGCHUN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b TIANJIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c CHANGCHUN INSTITUTE OF OPTICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CROSSTALK; INSERTION LOSSES; INTERCONNECTION NETWORKS; POLARIZATION; SILICA; WAVEGUIDES;

BANYAN NETWORKS; LOGIC PROGRAM;

OPTICAL SWITCHES;

EID: 34547477304     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.009347     Document Type: Article

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