Efficient techniques for widening the passband of a wavelength router

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 16, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 1895-1906

  Dragone, C ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Optical filter; Waveguide grating filter; Wavelength division multiplexer

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BANDWIDTH; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

MINIMUM CHANNEL SEPARATION; PASSBAND WIDENING; WAVEGUIDE GRATING ROUTERS;

OPTICAL FILTERS;

EID: 0032184123     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/50.721078     Document Type: Article

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