Highly programmable wavelength selective switch based on liquid crystal on silicon switching elements

By G. Baxter, S. Frisken, D. Abakoumov, Hao Zhou, Ian Clarke, Andrew L. Bartos, S. Poole. 2006 Optical Fiber Communication Conference and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference, 2006

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Subfields: Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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Microwave photonic signal processing (2007, background): “It is based on a programmable wavelength processor (PWP) comprising a two-dimensional array of LCoS pixels [6], which enables single-sideband (SSB) modulation and the imparting of arbitrary optical phase shifts to the carriers and SSB sidebands, to be achieved simultaneously.”
Towards ultrasensitive optical links enabled by low-noise phase-sensitive amplifiers (2011, methodology): “After the copier stage, a liquid-crystal-on-silicon-based optical processo”
A study of the routing and spectrum allocation in spectrum-sliced Elastic Optical Path networks (2011, methodology): “To form the spectrum path for the traffic demand using multiple sub-carriers, the SLICE network needs to deploy bandwidth-variable (BV) transponders at the network edge and bandwidth-variable WXCs in the network core, which can be built based on the continuous bandwidthvariable wavelength-selective ”
Spectrum-efficient and scalable elastic optical path network: architecture, benefits, and enabling technologies (2009, background): “1, SLICE enables spectrally-efficient direct accommodation of mixed data bit rates in the optical domain because of the flexible assignment of spectrum [6, 7].”
Distance-adaptive spectrum resource allocation in spectrum-sliced elastic optical path network [Topics in Optical Communications] (2010, methodology): “This functionality can be realized using bandwidth-variable optical filters employing a spatial light modulator, such as liquid crystal on silicon (LCoS), configured with a dispersive element to separate WDM signals [ 9 ].”
Dispersion Trimming in a Reconfigurable Wavelength Selective Switch (2008, background): “1, [6] and [7]) is a 2-D array of LCOS pixels.”
A Survey on OFDM-Based Elastic Core Optical Networking (2013, methodology): “In [89], a BV-WSS based on LCoS was reported with the switching granularity of a multiple of 50 GHz or 100 GHz.”
Optical MEMS for Lightwave Communication (2006, methodology): “Recently, liquid crystal-onsilicon has been employed in 1 × 9 WSS with programmable bandwidth [199].”
Ultrafast optical pulse shaping: A tutorial review (2011, unknown): “1 [66-67].”