A tunable wavelength demultiplexer using logarithmic filter chains

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 16, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 1657-1661

  Lam, Cedric F ^a,c   Vrijen, Rutger B ^b,c   Chang Chien, Patty P L ^d   Sievenpiper, Daniel F ^a,c   Yablonovitch, Eli ^a,b,c  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b OSA ^*

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Logarithmic scaling; Photonic crystal; Photonic switching; Waveguide filter; WDM demultiplexer

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DESIGN; OPTICAL FILTERS; OPTICAL SWITCHES; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; TUNING;

PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

EID: 0032165294     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/50.712249     Document Type: Article

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