Lightwave transrouter based on arrayed-waveguide grating multiplexer

Electronics Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 18, 1994, Pages 1504-1506

  Tachikawa, Y ^a   Kawachi, M ^a  

^a NTT CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Optical communication; Wavelength division multiplexing

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; LASER TUNING; MULTIPLEXING EQUIPMENT; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; RING LASERS;

ARRAYED WAVEGUIDE GRATING MULTIPLEXER; LIGHTWAVE TRANSROUTER; WAVELENGTH ADDRESSED CHANNEL;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 0028515447     PISSN: 00135194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/el:19941011     Document Type: Article

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