A proposed design for ultralow-loss waveguide grating routers

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 379-381

  Chen, Jerry C ^a,b   Dragone, Corrado ^a,b  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^b IEEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Integrated optics; Optical waveguide theory; Phased arrays; Waveguide components; Wavelength division multiplexing

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; INTEGRATED OPTICS; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL DESIGN; OPTICAL FIBERS; WAVEGUIDE COUPLERS;

DEMULTIPLEXERS; ULTRALOW-LOSS WAVEGUIDE GRATING ROUTERS;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 0032025380     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.661416     Document Type: Article

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