{"title":"Optical switches based on the generalized Mach-Zehnder interferometer","authors":"L. Cahill, F. Payne","doi":"10.1109/LEOSST.2000.869766","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"A brief outline of the switching capabilities of the generalized Mach-Zehnder interferometer has been given. This study has led to the design of a novel 4/spl times/4 switch. This type of switch has good loss uniformity and requires only a relatively small number of phase-shifting or switching elements.","PeriodicalId":415720,"journal":{"name":"2000 Digest of the LEOS Summer Topical Meetings. Electronic-Enhanced Optics. Optical Sensing in Semiconductor Manufacturing. Electro-Optics in Space. Broadband Optical Networks (Cat. No.00TH8497)","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2000-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"3","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"2000 Digest of the LEOS Summer Topical Meetings. Electronic-Enhanced Optics. Optical Sensing in Semiconductor Manufacturing. Electro-Optics in Space. Broadband Optical Networks (Cat. No.00TH8497)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LEOSST.2000.869766","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
A brief outline of the switching capabilities of the generalized Mach-Zehnder interferometer has been given. This study has led to the design of a novel 4/spl times/4 switch. This type of switch has good loss uniformity and requires only a relatively small number of phase-shifting or switching elements.