Waveguide grating routers with greater channel uniformity

Electronics Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 23, 1997, Pages 1951-1952

  Chen, J C ^a   Dragone, C ^a  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Grating demultiplexers

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; ELECTRIC LOSSES; MULTIPLEXING EQUIPMENT; OPTICAL DESIGN;

WAVEGUIDE GRATING ROUTERS (WGR);

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 0031556564     PISSN: 00135194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/el:19971311     Document Type: Article

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