Arrayed-waveguide grating add-drop multiplexer with loop-back optical paths

Electronics Letters

Volumn 29, Issue 24, 1993, Pages 2133-2134

  Tachikawa, Y ^a   Inoue, Y ^a   Kawachi, M ^a   Takahashi, H ^a   Inoue, K ^a  

^a NTT CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Optical communication; Wavelength division multiplexing

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; ELECTRIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY; FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; MULTIPLEXING EQUIPMENT; OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

ARRAYED WAVEGUIDE GRATING ADD DROP MULTIPLEXER; LOOP BACK OPTICAL PATHS; SILICA BASED LIGHTWAVE CIRCUIT TECHNOLOGY;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 0027696143     PISSN: 00135194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/el:19931426     Document Type: Article

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