Elimination of polarization sensitivity in silica-based wavelength division multiplexer using a polyimide half waveplate

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 15, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 1947-1957

  Inoue, Yasuyuki ^b,d,e   Takahashi, Hiroshi ^a,b,e,f,g   Ando, Shinji ^b,c   Sawada, Takashi ^b,h,i   Himeno, Akira ^b,f,j   Kawachi, Masao ^b,c,k,l  

^a IEEE

^b NTT CORPORATION   (Japan)

^c TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^d KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e Institute of Electronics   (Japan)

^f TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^g Inst Electronics Info Commun E ^*  (Japan)

^h NIHON UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

ⁱ Info Commun E   (Japan)

^j OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA   (United States)

^k Industry Canada   (Canada)

^l JAPAN SOCIETY OF APPLIED PHYSICS   (Japan)

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Author keywords

Arrayed waveguide grating multiplexer; Planar lightwave circuit; Polarization dependent loss (PDL); Polarization sensitivity; Polyimide waveplate; Silica based waveguide; Wavelength division multiplexing (WDM)

Indexed keywords

CROSSTALK; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; POLYIMIDES; SILICA;

ARRAYED WAVEGUIDE GRATING MULTIPLEXER; PLANAR LIGHTWAVE CIRCUIT; POLARIZATION DEPENDENT LOSS; POLARIZATION SENSITIVITY; SILICA BASED WAVEGUIDE;

FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

EID: 0031259287     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/50.633599     Document Type: Article

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