Optical Switching

Optical Switching is a photonic process that selectively redirects or modulates optical signals within a network without converting them to electrical form, distinguishing it from electronic switching by enabling faster, all-optical signal routing and control.

12K

Publications

540.6K

Citations

28.8K

Authors

3.4K

Institutions

Publications per year

2017–2026

2.3K

Parents

Photonics

Children

Acousto-optic SwitchingAll-optical SwitchingCrossbar Optical SwitchingElectro-optic SwitchingIntegrated Optical SwitchesMicroelectromechanical Systems Optical SwitchingNonlinear Optical SwitchingOptical Add-drop MultiplexingOptical Cross-connectsOptical Logic Gates

Publications

12K

Experimental Test of Bell's Inequalities Using Time- Varying Analyzers

Alain Aspect, Jean Dalibard, Gérard Roger · Physical Review Letters · 1982 · 3.9K citations · Full text

Natural Sciences, Physics, Optics +12

Nanowire Ultraviolet Photodetectors and Optical Switches

Hannes Kind, Benjamin Messer, Matt Law et al. · Advanced Materials · 2002 · 2.3K citations

Engineering, Materials Engineering, Materials Science +17

Optical burst switching (OBS) - a new paradigm for an optical Internet

Chunming Qiao, Myungsik Yoo · 1999 · 1.9K citations

Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Networks +15

Elastic optical networking: a new dawn for the optical layer?

Ori Gerstel, Masahiko Jinno, Andrew Lord et al. · IEEE Communications Magazine · 2012 · 1.6K citations

Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Networks +16

A high-speed silicon optical modulator based on a metal–oxide–semiconductor capacitor

Ansheng Liu, Richard Jones, Ling Liao et al. · Nature · 2004 · 1.6K citations

Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Materials Science +16

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Authors

28.8K

CQ
Chunming Qiao
University at Buffalo, State University of New York, United States
67 publications · 6.6K citations
36
h-index
SJ
S. J. Ben Yoo
University of California, Davis, United States
56 publications · 5.6K citations
31
h-index
KB
Keren Bergman
Columbia University, United States
71 publications · 3.1K citations
31
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GI
G. I. Stegeman
University of Central Florida, United States
49 publications · 3.4K citations
31
h-index
BM
Biswanath Mukherjee
University of California, Davis, United States
40 publications · 4.3K citations
27
h-index

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Institutions

3.4K

1–8 of 3.4K

Venues

Journal of Lightwave Technology
827 publications · 41.2K citations
94
h-index
Applied Physics Letters
690 publications · 39.8K citations
94
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Optics Express
764 publications · 34.3K citations
87
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Optics Letters
570 publications · 29.7K citations
82
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IEEE Photonics Technology Letters
IPTEL · 689 publications · 24.3K citations
67
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