Passband broadening of integrated arrayed waveguide filters using multimode interference couplers

Electronics Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 449-451

  Amersfoort, M R ^a   Soole, J B D ^a   LeBlanc, H P ^a   Andreadakis, N C ^a   Rajhel, A ^a   Caneau, C ^a  

^a TELCORDIA TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Integrated optics; Optiocal waveguide filters

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; INTEGRATED OPTICS; MULTIPLEXING EQUIPMENT; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; WAVEGUIDE COUPLERS;

INTEGRATED ARRAY WAVEGUIDE FILTERS; MULTIMODE INTERFERENCE COUPLER; PASSBAND BROADENING; SINGLEMODE FIBRE;

OPTICAL FILTERS;

EID: 0030082743     PISSN: 00135194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/el:19960344     Document Type: Article

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