This Tutorial will discuss the motivation, benefits, and challenges of photonic switching in
data centers and cover prospects of future data centers involving emerging new …

Photonic switches are increasingly considered for insertion in high performance datacenter
architectures to meet the growing performance demands of interconnection networks. We …

Micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS)-based cross-connects are widely used for all-
optical switching in recent optical networks. This paper provides a brief overview of various …

The intensive investment in optical microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) in the last
decade has led to many successful components that satisfy the requirements of lightwave …

After microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) devices have been well established,
components of higher complexity are now developed. Particularly, the combination with …

All-optical networking can be the sole approach to provide the huge bandwidth required for
future networks. The essential elements in such an optical network are optical switches. A …

The book gives an in-depth description of key devices of current and next generation fibre
optic communication networks. Devices treated include semiconductor lasers, optical …

A novel silicon on insulator (SOI) MEMS process has been designed and developed to
realize a two axes thermally actuated single crystal silicon micromirror device, which …

Crystalline silicon has become more and more important for optical MEMS. The increased
need of bandwidth in optical communication networks has led to a number of new optical …

Natiirlich gibt es noch viele andere Bereiche, die schon heute eine Aufnahme in ein
Lehrbuch iiber Mikrosystemtechnik verdient hatten. So sind im Uberlappungsbereich …