PHASAR-based WDM-devices: Principles, design and applications

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 236-250

  Smit, Meint K ^a,b   Van Dam, Cor ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b IEEE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DESIGN; FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; TELECOMMUNICATION LINKS;

DEMULTIPLEXERS; MULTIWAVELENGTH TELECOMMUNICATION LINKS; OPTICAL PHASED ARRAYS; WAVELENGTH MULTIPLEXERS;

MULTIPLEXING EQUIPMENT;

EID: 0030156565     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/2944.577370     Document Type: Article

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