Multiwavelength diffraction and apodization using binary superimposed gratings

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 839-841

  Avrutsky, Ivan A ^b   Fay, Martin ^a,b   Xu, J M ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Apodization; Diffraction gratings; Distributed Bragg reflector (DBR) lasers; Laser resonators; Wavelength division multiplexing (WDM)

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIFFRACTION; FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; LASER RESONATORS; LIGHT REFLECTION; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MIRRORS; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

APODIZATION; BINARY SUPERIMPOSED GRATINGS (BSG); SIDEMODE SUPPRESSION RATIOS (SMSR);

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS;

EID: 0032097007     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.681503     Document Type: Article

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