An integrated two-stage cascaded Mach-Zehnder device in GaAs

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 1447-1454

  Hu, M H ^c   Huang, Zhengyu ^c   Hall, K L ^d   Scarmozzino, Robert ^c   Osgood Jr , Richard M ^a,b,c  

^a IEEE

^b OSA ^*

^c Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^d MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Conformal transformation; Direct laser fabrication; Mach Zehnder; Pulse multiplexer; Waveguide bend; Wavelength filter; Y branch

Indexed keywords

ETCHING; INTEGRATED CIRCUIT TESTING; INTERFERENCE SUPPRESSION; ITERATIVE METHODS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; MULTIPLEXING EQUIPMENT; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM ARSENIDE; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION; TIME DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; WAVEGUIDE COMPONENTS;

CONFORMAL TRANSFORMATION; MACH-ZEHNDER INTERFEROMETER; PASSIVE COMPONENTS; PULSE RATE MULTIPLEXER; WAVEGUIDE BENDS; WAVELENGTH FILTERING;

INTERFEROMETERS;

EID: 0032138467     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/50.704610     Document Type: Article

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