ACOUSTOOPTIC SWITCH WITH A NEAR RECTANGULAR PASSBAND FOR WDM SYSTEMS

Authors
SMITH DA RASHID H CHAKRAVARTHY RS AGBOATWALLA AM PATIL AA BAO Z IMAM N SMITH SW BARAN JE JACKEL JL KALLMAN J
Citation
Da. Smith et al., ACOUSTOOPTIC SWITCH WITH A NEAR RECTANGULAR PASSBAND FOR WDM SYSTEMS, Electronics Letters, 32(6), 1996, pp. 542-543
Citations number
8
Categorie Soggetti
Engineering, Eletrical & Electronic
Journal title
Electronics Letters → ACNP
ISSN journal
00135194
Volume
32
Issue
6
Year of publication
1996
Pages
542 - 543
Database
ISI
SICI code
0013-5194(1996)32:6<542:ASWANR>2.0.ZU;2-R
Abstract
The authors describe the most rectangular passband yet reported for an acousto-optic wavelength-routing switch. The device is a multicycle S AW directional-coupler-weighted AOTF, fabricated on XY lithium niobate , with a -3dB width of 2.52nm and a -20dB width of 0.89nm. For compari son, an ideal apodised AOTF with the same 3dB width would have a -20dB width of only 0.33nm.