Optical Switching

Part I. Introduction

1. Preliminaries and Terminologies
Tarek S. El-Bawab

Part II. Optical Switching Technologies

2. Lithium Niobate Electro-Optic Switching
Hideaki Okayama

3. Acousto-Optic Switching
Antonio d’Alessandro

4. Thermo-Optic Switching
Ralf Hauffe, Klaus Petermann

5. Liquid-Crystal Based Optical Switching
J. Michael Harris, Robert Lindquist, JuneKoo Rhee, James E. Webb

6. MEMS Based Optical Switching
Roland Ryf, David T. Neilson, Vladimir A. Aksyuk

7. Optical Switching with SOAs
Paul R. Prucnal, Ivan Glesk, Paul Toliver, Lei Xu

8. Other Optical Switching Technologies
Tarek S. El-Bawab

Part III. Optical Switching Fabrics, Systems, and Networks

9. Planar Optical Space Switch Architectures
David K. Hunter

10. Switch Fabric Control
Wojciech Kabacinski, Grzegorz Danilewicz, Mariusz Glabowski

11. Optical Switching in Communications Networks
Tarek S. El-Bawab

12. Protection and Restoration Architectures
Alan McGuire

13. Optical Packet Switching and Optical Burst Switching
Alan E. Willner, Reza Khosravani, Saurabh Kumar

14. Closing Remarks
Tarek S. El-Bawab

Keywords: Engineering, Communications Engineering, Networks, Microwaves, RF and Optical Engineering, Control Engineering, Computer Communication Networks, Electronic and Computer Engineering