Design and performance of concave holographic gratings for applications as multiplexers/ demultiplexers for wavelength routed optical networks

Optical Engineering

Volumn 35, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 2816-2823

  Stavdas, Alexander ^a   Bayvel, Polina ^a   Midwinter, John E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Concave gratings; Rowland circle mount; Wavelength division multiplexing networks

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000969520     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.600966     Document Type: Article

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