It is highly desirable to have a low loss, high speed, low interchannel crosstalk, and light-weight fiber optic N/spl times/N cross-connect switch without any physical moving parts. It is well known that ferroelectric liquid crystals (FLCs) can be used as high-speed polarization switching devices without any moving parts. In a previous letter we have reported a 2/spl times/2 fiber optic FLC switch with low interchannel crosstalk and high speed. Hence, in this paper, we propose the use of polarization optics combined with ferroelectric liquid crystals to build a N/spl times/N switch for optical cross-connects.


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    Title :

    Low interchannel crosstalk high speed fiber optic N/spl times/N crossconnect switch using polarization optics and ferroelectric liquid crystals


    Contributors:
    Yuan, S. (author) / Riza, N.A. (author)


    Publication date :

    1998-01-01


    Size :

    224616 byte




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English