Design of Free-Space WDM Router Based on Holographic Concave Grating

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 221-223

  Churin, E G ^a,b   Bayvel, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF AUTOMATION AND ELECTROMETRY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Demultiplexing; Free space; Gratings; Optical crossconnect; Spectrometry; Wavelength router

Indexed keywords

ABERRATIONS; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); CROSSTALK; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; HOLOGRAPHY; OPTICAL DESIGN; OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS; ROUTERS; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

HOLOGRAPHIC CONCAVE GRATINGS;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT;

EID: 0033080205     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.740710     Document Type: Article

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