EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION OF A FREE-SPACE OPTICAL SWITCHING NETWORK BY USING SYMMETRICAL SELF-ELECTRO-OPTIC-EFFECT DEVICES

被引：59

作者：

MCCORMICK, FB

TOOLEY, FAP

CLOONAN, TJ

BRUBAKER, JL

LENTINE, AL

MORRISON, RL

HINTERLONG, SJ

HERRON, MJ

WALKER, SL

SASIAN, JM

机构：

[1] AT and T Bell Laboratories, Naperville, IL, 60566

来源：

APPLIED OPTICS | 1992年 / 31卷 / 26期

关键词：

PHOTONIC SWITCHING; OPTICAL COMPUTING; OPTICAL INTERCONNECTIONS;

D O I：

10.1364/AO.31.005431

中图分类号：

O43 [光学];

学科分类号：

070207 ; 0803 ;

摘要：

A prototype digital free-space photonic switching fabric is demonstrated. It consists of three cascaded 16 x 8 arrays of symmetric self-electro-optic-effect devices that are used as logic gates that implement part of a multistage interconnection network. We discuss architecture, device tolerancing, optical system design, and optomechanical design. This optical circuit is successfully configured as a fully operational array of 32 independent 2 x 2 nodes and operates at 100 kHz.

引用

页码：5431 / 5446

页数：16

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