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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Kim, J
• Nuzman, C.J
• Kumar, B
• Lieuwen, D.F
• Kraus, J.S
• Weiss, A
• Lichtenwalner, C.P
• Papazian, A.R
• Frahm, R.E
• Basavanhally, N.R
• Ramsey, D.A
• Aksyuk, V.A
• Pardo, F
• Simon, M.E
• Lifton, V
• Chan, H.B
• Haueis, M
• Gasparyan, A
• Shea, H.R
• Arney, S
• Bolle, C.A
• Kolodner, P.R
• Ryf, R
• Neilson, D.T
• Gates, J.V

Titel

1100 × 1100 port MEMS-based optical crossconnect with 4-dB maximum loss

Ist Teil von

• IEEE photonics technology letters, 2003-11, Vol.15 (11), p.1537

Ort / Verlag

New York: The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)

Erscheinungsjahr

2003

Quelle

IEEE Electronic Library (IEL)

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• We present a microelectromechanical systems-based beam steering optical crossconnect switch core with port count exceeding 1100, featuring mean fiber-to-fiber insertion loss of 2.1 dB and maximum insertion loss of 4.0 dB across all possible connections. The challenge of efficient measurement and optimization of all possible connections was met by an automated testing facility. The resulting connections feature optical loss stability of better than 0.2 dB over days, without any feedback control under normal laboratory conditions.