Scalable optical switches with large port count based on a waveguide grating router and passive couplers

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 20, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 508-510

  Joe, In Sung ^a,b   Solgaard, Olav ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Optical packet switching; Optical switches; Tunable lasers; Waveguide grating routers (WGRs)

Indexed keywords

FREE SPECTRAL RANGE; OPTICAL PACKET SWITCHING; SWITCHING ELEMENTS; SWITCHING TIME; TUNABLE LASERS; WAVEGUIDE GRATING ROUTER; WAVELENGTH-SELECTIVE OPTICAL SWITCH; WAVEGUIDE GRATING ROUTERS (WGRS);

LASER TUNING; LASERS; PACKET SWITCHING; ROUTERS; SWITCHING; WAVEGUIDES;

OPTICAL SWITCHES;

EID: 77955079961     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2008.918237     Document Type: Article

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