Optical add-drop multiplexer based on an asymmetric Bragg coupler

Optics Communications

Volumn 157, Issue 1-6, 1998, Pages 249-264

  Erdogan, Turan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Add drop filter; Add drop multiplexer; Coupler; Exchange bragg coupler; Fiber grating; Wavelength division multiplexing

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; MULTIPLEXING EQUIPMENT; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL FIBER COUPLING; OPTICAL IMAGE STORAGE; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

ASYMMETRIC BRAGG COUPLER; OPTICAL ADD-DROP MULTIPLEXERS; ULTRAVIOLET-INDUCED PHASE GRATINGS;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT;

EID: 0032296289     PISSN: 00304018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0030-4018(98)00522-7     Document Type: Article

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