An integratable polarization-independent tunable filter for WDM systems: The multigrating filter

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 14, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 2719-2735

  Weber, Jean Pierre ^{a,c,d,e,f,g,h}   Stoltz, Björn ^a   Sano, Hirohisa ^b   Dasler, Marie ^a   Öberg, Olof ^a   Walz, Joachim ^a  

^a ERICSSON RADIO SYSTEMS AB   (Sweden)

^b HITACHI LTD   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e ERICSSON RESEARCH   (Sweden)

^f IEEE

^g Electro Optics Society

^h Assoc des Ing I'Universite Libre

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIT ERROR RATE; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); CROSSTALK; FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL BEAM SPLITTERS; OPTICAL FILTERS; OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; PHOTODIODES;

BIT ERROR RATE MEASUREMENTS; ERBIUM DOPED FIBER AMPLIFIER; MULTIGRATING FILTER; REVERSED BIASED OUTPUT AMPLIFIER;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 0030420003     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/50.545791     Document Type: Article

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