Transmission Characteristics of Arrayed Waveguide N × N Wavelength Multiplexer

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 1995, Pages 447-455

  Takahashi, Hiroshi ^a   Oda, Kazuhiro ^a   Toba, Hiroma ^a   Inoue, Yasuyuki ^a  

^a NTT CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; BIT ERROR RATE; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); CROSSTALK; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; FIBER OPTIC NETWORKS; FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; INTEGRATED OPTOELECTRONICS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

ARRAYED WAVEGUIDES; INPUT AND OUTPUT PORTS; INSERTION LOSS; PASSBAND WIDTH; SPECTRAL RANGE; WAVELENGTH MULTIPLEXER;

MULTIPLEXING EQUIPMENT;

EID: 0029274008     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: 15582213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/50.372441     Document Type: Article

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