Arrayed-waveguide grating lasers and their applications to tuning-free wavelength routing

IEE Proceedings: Optoelectronics

Volumn 143, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 322-328

  Tachikawa, Y ^a   Okamoto, K ^a  

^a NTT CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Fabry perot lasers; Multiplexing; Ring lasers; Waveguide lasers

Indexed keywords

FIBER LASERS; INFRARED RADIATION; MULTIPLEXING; MULTIPLEXING EQUIPMENT; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; RING LASERS;

TUNING-FREE WAVELENGTH ROUTING;

LASERS;

EID: 0030261846     PISSN: 13502433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/ip-opt:19960674     Document Type: Article

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