Crosstalk reduction in a 10-GHz spacing arrayed-waveguide grating by phase-error compensation

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 364-370

  Yamada, Hiroaki ^a,b,c   Takada, Kazumasa ^a,d   Mitachi, Seiko ^a,d  

^a NTT CORPORATION   (Japan)

^b Osaka Prefecture University   (Japan)

^c JAPAN SOCIETY OF APPLIED PHYSICS   (Japan)

^d IEEE

Author keywords

Optical crosstalk; Optical planar waveguides; Phase measurement; Phased arrays; Wavelength division multiplexing

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS SILICON; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); CROSSTALK; ERROR COMPENSATION; FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; INTERFERENCE SUPPRESSION; LIGHT INTERFERENCE; LIGHT POLARIZATION; MULTIPLEXING EQUIPMENT; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL FILMS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

ARRAYED WAVEGUIDE GRATING MULTIPLEXERS; OPTICAL PLANAR WAVEGUIDES;

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS;

EID: 0032027744     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/50.661362     Document Type: Article

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