Transmission performance through cascaded 1-nm arrayed waveguide multiplexers at 10 Gb/s

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 1038-1040

  Nissov, Morten ^a,b   Pedersen, Rune J S ^b   Jørgensen, Bo Foged ^b  

^a IEEE   (Denmark)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Laser stability; Optical fiber communication; Optical planar waveguide components; Optical propagation; Wavelength division multiplexing

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; BIT ERROR RATE; DISTRIBUTED FEEDBACK LASERS; ELECTROMAGNETIC DISPERSION; FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; LIGHT MODULATORS; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL SWITCHES; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; WAVEGUIDE COMPONENTS;

ARRAYED WAVEGUIDE MULTIPLEXERS (AWM); DISPERSION SHIFTED FIBERS (DSF);

MULTIPLEXING EQUIPMENT;

EID: 0031189067     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.593392     Document Type: Article

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