Demonstration of a hitless bypass switch using nanomechanical perturbation for high-bitrate transparent networks

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 3045-3058

  Chatterjee, Rohit ^a   Yu, Mingbin ^b   Stein, Aaron ^c   Kwong, Dim Lee ^b   Kimerling, Lionel C ^d   Wong, Chee Wei ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF MICROELECTRONICS   (Singapore)

^c BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURRENT LIMITING REACTORS; NANOPHOTONICS;

BIT RATES; BROADBAND SIGNAL; EXPERIMENTAL MEASUREMENTS; ON CHIPS; OPTICAL HITLESS SWITCHES; THEORETICAL MODELING; TRANSPARENT NETWORK;

TRANSPARENT OPTICAL NETWORKS;

EID: 76149138034     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.003045     Document Type: Article

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