Title :
General approach to hitless switching and FSR extension resonators in integrated photonic circuits
Author :
M.A. Popovic;H.A. Haus;M.R. Watts
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA
fDate :
6/28/1905 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
A hitless bypass switch for microphotonic channel add-drop filters that is based on /spl Delta//spl beta/ switches is described. We generalize the design to a large class of devices enabling variants of the switch and application to free-spectral-range extension in tunable filters.
Keywords :
"Switching circuits","Optical switches","Optical filters","Optical resonators","Resonator filters","Optical design","Integrated optics","Optical losses","Photonics","Optical devices"
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communication Conference, 2006 and the 2006 National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference. OFC 2006
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-803-9
DOI :
10.1109/OFC.2006.215550
