Penalty-free polarisation compensation of SiO2/Si arrayed waveguide grating wavelength multiplexers using stress release grooves

Electronics Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 17, 1998, Pages 1661-1663

  Wildermuth, E ^a   Nadler, Ch ^a   Lanker, M ^a   Hunziker, W ^a   Melchior, H ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; MULTIPLEXING EQUIPMENT; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; SILICA;

TRANSVERSE ELECTRIC (TE) MODES; TRANSVERSE MAGNETIC (TM) MODES;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT;

EID: 0032136621     PISSN: 00135194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/el:19981186     Document Type: Article

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