Scanning the issue. - Rod C. Alferness (Proc. IEEE, 1987)

Waveguide electrooptic switch arrays. - Rod C. Alferness (IEEE J. Sel. Areas Commun., 1988)

A practical vision for optical transport networking. - Rod C. Alferness; Paul A. Bonenfant; Curtis J. Newton; Kevin A. Sparks; Eve L. Varma (Bell Labs Tech. J., 1999)

The evolution of optical systems: Optics everywhere. - Rod C. Alferness; Herwig Kogelnik; Thomas H. Wood (Bell Labs Tech. J., 2000)

The Evolution of Configurable Wavelength Multiplexed Optical Networks - A Historical Perspective. - Rod C. Alferness (Proc. IEEE, 2012)

A Scalable Multicast Hybrid Broadband Crossbar Wavelength Selective Switch For Datacenters. - Akhilesh S. P. Khope; Roger J. Helkey; Songtao Liu; Adel A. M. Saleh; Rod C. Alferness; John E. Bowers 001 (CCWC, 2021)