Summary form only given. Photonic space switches will be very attractive elements for future communication networks. While simulations and theory have predicted limitations on the size of an N /spl times/ N semiconductor switch to be near 50-100 channels, practical concerns, such as, optical loss and physical size have limited monolithic InP crossconnects to arrays no larger than 4 /spl times/ 4. To address these issues, we report a novel compact optical switch that combines zero insertion loss and high contrast with a scaleable, compact architecture to act as a building block for large N /spl times/ N photonic crossconnects.


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    Title :

    InGaAsP/InP suppressed modal interference switches with integrated curved amplifiers for scaleable photonic crossconnects


    Contributors:
    Fish, G.A. (author) / Coldren, L.A. (author) / DenBaars, S.P. (author)


    Publication date :

    1998-01-01


    Size :

    198688 byte




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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