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Design of large, MEMS-based photonic switches

Helkey et al., 2002

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12406003261978808591
Author
Helkey R
Bowers J
Jerphagnon O
Kaman V
Keating A
Liu B
Pusarla C
Xu D
Yuan S
Zheng X
Adams S
Davis T
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Optics and Photonics News

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1047-6938/02/05/0040/4-$0015.00© Optical Society of America in the 1980s, before the advent of EDFAs, it was not deployed in large networks since for short transmission spans, the equipment was considered too expensive to use to combine optical signals onto a single …
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