Reduction of filter sidelobe level by an X-crossing vertical coupled ARROW filter

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 391-393

  Chu, S T ^a,d   Pan, W ^a   Sato, S ^a   Maeda, T ^a,b   Little, B ^c,d   Kokubun, Y ^a,b,d  

^a KANAGAWA ACADEMY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b YOKOHAMA NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d IEEE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Integrated optics; Optical filter; Sidelobe suppression; Waveguides

Indexed keywords

INTEGRATED OPTICS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

SIDELOBE SUPPRESSION; VERTICAL COUPLER FILTERS;

OPTICAL FILTERS;

EID: 0032025526     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.661420     Document Type: Article

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