Comparison of cascadability performance of different types of commercially available wavelength (de)multiplexers

Electronics Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 19, 1997, Pages 1624-1626

  Caspar, C ^a   Foisel, H M ^a   Helmolt, C V ^a   Strebel, B ^a   Sugaya, Y ^b  

^a FRAUNHOFER HEINRICH HERTZ INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^b FUJITSU LABORATORIES LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

Grating demultiplexers

Indexed keywords

BIT ERROR RATE; CASCADE CONNECTIONS; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; TRANSPARENCY;

GRATING DEMULTIPLEXERS;

MULTIPLEXING EQUIPMENT;

EID: 0031237951     PISSN: 00135194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/el:19971116     Document Type: Article

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