An N x N optical multiplexer using a planar arrangement of two star couplers

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 3, Issue 9, 1991, Pages 812-815

  Dragone, C ^a  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER NETWORKS - MULTIPLEXING; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS - FOURIER TRANSFORMS; OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING; OPTICAL GRATINGS; WAVEGUIDE COMPONENTS - COUPLERS;

MACH-ZEHNDER MULTIPLEXER; OPTICAL MULTIPLEXER; STAR COUPLERS;

MULTIPLEXING EQUIPMENT;

EID: 0026219964     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: 19410174     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.84502     Document Type: Article

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