Integrated WDM dynamic power equalizer with potentially low insertion loss

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 1443-1445

  Doerr, C R ^a,b   Joyner, C H ^b   Stulz, L W ^b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Couplers; Equalizers; Gain control; Gratings; Wavelength division multiplexing

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION EQUALIZERS; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); COUPLED CIRCUITS; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; ELECTRIC NETWORK SYNTHESIS; GAIN CONTROL; INSERTION LOSSES; SEMICONDUCTING INDIUM PHOSPHIDE; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

DYNAMIC POWER EQUALIZERS;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT;

EID: 0032187186     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.720288     Document Type: Article

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