Marom D M, Mendlovic D
Appl Opt. 1996 Jan 10;35(2):248-53. doi: 10.1364/AO.35.000248.
An electronically or optically addressed compact optical bypass-exchange switch is investigated and experimentally demonstrated.The switch is polarization based and consists of a controllable λ/2 platesandwiched between two polarizing beam displacers. The input and the output signals propagate normal to the switching array, which makes the switch extremely attractive for cascading switching arrays, as found in multistage interconnect networks. A complete, all-optical interconnection network is suggested.
研究并通过实验证明了一种电子或光寻址的紧凑型光旁路交换开关。该开关基于偏振，由夹在两个偏振光束位移器之间的可控λ/2波片组成。输入和输出信号垂直于开关阵列传播，这使得该开关对于级联开关阵列极具吸引力，如在多级互连网络中所见。提出了一种完整的全光互连网络。
