Figure 1. Schematic diagramof a cross-point switch (a), which consists of a Cartesian matrix of orthogonal wires with an air gap at each intersection. The switch at each intersection can be turned on and off by The main driving engine of the IT revolution has been geometry miniaturization of transistors. This has been accomplished with a striking development in microfabrication technology, refe...

To construct large-scale silicon electro-optical switches for optical interconnections, we developed a method using a limited number of power monitors inserted at certain positions to detect and determine the optimum operating points of all switch units to eliminate non-uniform effects arising from fabrication errors. We also introduced an optical phase bias to one phase-shifter arm of a Mach-Z...

A compact tunable 10 W picosecond source based on Yb-doped fiber amplification of gain switch laser diode has been demonstrated. A gain switch semiconductor laser diode was used as the seed source, and a multi-stage single mode Yb-doped fiber preamplifier was combined with two large mode area double-clad Yb-doped fiber main amplifiers to construct the amplification system. The tunable pulses wi...

The problem of an influence cooling conditions power semiconductor devices on properties selected DC–DC converters is considered. new version electrothermal average model a diode-transistor switch for SPICE (Simulation Program with Integrated Circuit Emphasis) used in the investigations. This makes it possible to take into account thermal inertia as well mutual interactions between these device...

High voltage multi-gap gas discharge switches are very important tools for pulsed power applications in accelerator laboratories. They have applications for example in driving fast injectionand extraction magnets and beam dumps. Basically, there are two different principles used to realise a high voltage switch. One is based on the use of several semiconductor switches, and the other is based o...

This paper demonstrates the design of an Arrayed Waveguide Gratings (AWG) based optical switch. In the design both physical and network layer analysis is performed. The physical layer power and noise analysis is done to obtain Bit Error Rate (BER). This has been found that at the higher bit rates, BER is not affected with number of buffer modules. Network layer analysis is done to obtain perfor...

This paper presents a modified nine switch inverter with two inputs and two Z-source networks. This inverter has two DC inputs and two AC outputs. Input DC voltages can be boosted to the required level. Amplitude, frequency and phase of AC output voltages can be controlled, independently. The proposed converter can be used in applications with two unregulated DC sources, which require feeding ...