128 × 128 three-dimensional MEMS optical switch module with simultaneous optical path connection for optical cross-connect systems

Applied Optics

Volumn 50, Issue 21, 2011, Pages 4037-4041

  Mizukami, Masato ^a   Yamaguchi, Joji ^a   Nemoto, Naru ^a   Kawajiri, Yuko ^a   Hirata, Hirooki ^a   Uchiyama, Shingo ^a   Makihara, Mitsuhiro ^a   Sakata, Tomomi ^a   Shimoyama, Nobuhiro ^a   Oda, Kazuhiro ^b  

^a NTT CORPORATION   (Japan)

^b NTT Network Service Systems Laboratories   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CROSS CONNECTIONS (WATER DISTRIBUTION); MOEMS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; STABILIZATION;

HIGH SPEED CONNECTIONS; MEMS OPTICAL SWITCHES; OPTICAL CROSS-CONNECT; OPTICAL POWER; PRACTICAL USE; SWITCH MODULES; SWITCHING CONTROL; SWITCHING TIME;

OPTICAL SWITCHES;

EID: 79960621274     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.50.004037     Document Type: Article

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