Lucent lambda router

Dual-axis torsional mirror Lucent lambda router optical switch... 

The Lucent lambda router, a 3-d switch, was developed as an optical cross-connect switch for large switch arrays (256 x 256 to 1024 x 1024 port counts). A schematic diagram of a 3-d optical cross-connect switch is shown in Figure 4.8 [11]. 

Our communications infrastructure relies heavily on advanced materials chemistries. From the manufacturing processes used to fabricate optical fiber cables to molecular beam epitaxy techniques for the creation of nanoscale heterostructures that enable many optical devices, innovations in materials chemistry have played a role. An example of a recent technological achievement that relates to optical communications systems is the MEMS-based (microelectromechanical system) Lambda Router. The Lambda Router is an optical system developed at Lucent Technologies for switching narrowly focused... 

Elsa Reichmanis I have read a lot about start-ups and smaller companies having a faster pace and being the innovators of the future. I don t entirely buy into that. I think you can have that same rapid time to market if you have the right environment in a large company. For example, Lucent s MEMS Lambda Router took only 18 months from idea to delivery of product, and I don t think of Lucent as a small company. 

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