Silica-based planar lightwave circuits

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 913-924

  Himeno, Akira ^a,b,c   Kato, Kuniharu ^a,b,d,e,g,h   Miya, Tetsuo ^a,b,c,f,g,h  

^a NTT CORPORATION   (Japan)

^b Tohoku University ^*

^c TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA   (United States)

^e IBARAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f Institute of Electronics   (Japan)

^g JAPAN SOCIETY OF APPLIED PHYSICS   (Japan)

^h IEEE

Author keywords

Hybrid integrated circuits; Optical waveguide components; Planar waveguides; Waveguide filters; Waveguide switches; Wavelength division multiplexing

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; OPTICAL BEAM SPLITTERS; OPTICAL FILTERS; OPTICAL SWITCHES; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON COMPOUNDS; SILICA; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

OPTICAL POWER SPLITTERS; PLANAR LIGHTWAVE CIRCUITS (PLC); THERMOOPTIC SWITCHES;

HYBRID INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

EID: 0032207904     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/2944.736076     Document Type: Article

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