High-capacity optical spatial switch based on reversible holograms

Andrei L. Mikaelian; Viktor K. Salakhutdinov

doi:10.1117/12.56137

1 April 1992 High-capacity optical spatial switch based on reversible holograms

Andrei L. Mikaelian, Viktor K. Salakhutdinov

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Optical Engineering, Vol. 31, Issue 4, (April 1992). https://doi.org/10.1117/12.56137

Abstract

A scheme is presented for an optical spatial switch in which independent and arbitrary switching is realized using diffraction of light beams by a programmable microhologram array (MA). It is shown that a bacteriorhodopsin film can be used as a recording medium for an MA. If the throughput of each channel is up to several Gbit/s, the capacity of such a switch can reach 10⁴ x 10⁴ channels, with the time of an arbitrary switching not more than 100 ms. The experimental results given prove the possibility of implementing a switch having these characteristics

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Andrei L. Mikaelian and Viktor K. Salakhutdinov "High-capacity optical spatial switch based on reversible holograms," Optical Engineering 31(4), (1 April 1992). https://doi.org/10.1117/12.56137

Published: 1 April 1992

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