Angle selective enhancement of beam deflection in high-speed electrooptic switches

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 19, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 701-703

  Glebov, Alexei L ^a   Sugama, Akio ^b   Smirnov, Vadim I ^c   Aoki, Shigenori ^b   Rotar, Vasile ^c   Lee, Michael G ^a   Glebov, Leonid B ^c  

^a FUJITSU LABORATORIES OF AMERICA   (United States)

^b FUJITSU LABORATORIES LTD   (Japan)

^c OptiGrate Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Beam deflectors; Electrooptic (EO) switches; Ferroelectric thin films; Microoptics; PLZT; Volume bragg gratings (BGS)

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE MATERIAL; BEAM DEFLECTION; BEAM DEFLECTORS; ELECTROOPTIC (EO) SWITCHES; ELECTROOPTIC DEFLECTORS; ELECTROOPTIC SWITCH; FERROELECTRIC OXIDES; HIGH POTENTIAL; HIGH-SPEED; MICRO-LENS ARRAYS; OPTICAL BURST TRANSPORT; PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENTS; PLANAR SILICA WAVEGUIDES; SWITCHING VOLTAGES; TEST SETUPS; VOLUME BRAGG GRATINGS;

BRAGG GRATINGS; FERROELECTRIC THIN FILMS; FERROELECTRICITY; MATERIALS PROPERTIES; MICROOPTICS; OPTICAL SWITCHES; SILICA;

FERROELECTRIC FILMS;

EID: 56449118205     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2007.895066     Document Type: Article

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