Development of a Micromechanical Grating Optical Modulator for Optical Network

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 27, Issue 24, 2009, Pages 5681-5686

  Yu, Yiting ^a   Yuan, Weizheng ^a   Yan, Bin ^a   Li, Taiping ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN POLYTECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Grating optical modulator; optical switch; silicon on glass (SOG) process; variable optical attenuator (VOA)

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008048862     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: 15582213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2009.2034757     Document Type: Article

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