Switching speed of integrated acoustically-tunable optical filter

Abstract
A 6 μs switching time has been measured for a 2.2 nm bandpass integrated acousto-optic filter operating at 1550nm, requiring only 15mW of RF power per wavelength channel and capable of operation a s a 1 × 1, 1 × 2 o r 2 × 2 wavelength switch with simultaneous and independent control of numerous wavelength channels.