… This tutorial has discussed recent developments in waveguided 2 × 2 and N × M photonic
switches (although classical MZIs and MRRs were not reviewed). Agendas for future research …

… This section will begin bydiscussing some of the practical considerations in the design ofa
photonic switching system based on these directional couplers. Several potential applications …

… discussing the strengths and weaknesses of the photonics switching technology. It will begin
by discussing the temporal bandwidth limitations of photonic devices. Then it will focus on …

… for photonic switching systems. The link bandwidth of optical fibers is relatively inexpensive,
whereas photonic switch … are both expensive and currently impractical for system level use. …

… data networks with photonic reconfigurability. This tutorial will review the motivation behind
photonic switching, its challenges, deployment considerations, and switching technologies. …

… An important characteristic in photonic switching is losses introduced by connecting paths
and difference between maximal and minimal losses of different connecting paths. This …

… This paper reviews various architectures for photonic switching that … photonic switch to
include photonic cross-connects as well as photonic switches, and discuss photonic switching …

… OPTICAL RELATIONAL SYSTEM In this section, several photonic switching systems that
are based on relational devices will be reviewed. The first type of system to be discussed is …

… based on the configuration of the above switch engines. We also demonstrate our latest work
in the prototype of silicon photonic switches used for the telecommunication network nodes …

… for photonic switches using semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) and photonic cavities which
… The optical nonlinearity of such photonic switches is theoretically analysed by introducing …