T. Watanabe, T. Goh, M. Okuno, S. Sohma, T. Shibata, M. Itoh, M. Kobayashi, M. Ishii, A. Sugita, Y. Hibino
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引用次数: 11
Abstract
We successfully fabricated a silica-based 1/spl times/128 thermo-optic switch (TOSW) with an insertion loss of 4 dB and an extinction ratio of 40 dB using planar lightwave circuit (PLC) technology. This TOSW is promising for realizing a large-scale optical switch system.