Polarisation insensitive and tuneable optical add and drop multiplexer utilising vertically stacked buried semiconductor waveguides

Electronics Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 20, 1999, Pages 1733-1734

  Horita, M ^a   Yazaki, T ^a   Tanaka, S ^a   Matsushima, Y ^a  

^a KDDI R AND D LABORATORIES INC   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAGG CELLS; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIFFRACTION; LIGHT POLARIZATION; OPTICAL FILTERS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SEMICONDUCTING INDIUM COMPOUNDS; VAPOR PHASE EPITAXY; WAVEGUIDE COUPLERS;

CONTRADIRECTIONAL COUPLER FILTER; METAL ORGANIC VAPOUR PHASE EPITAXY; OPTICAL ADD AND DROP MULTIPLEXERS; SEMICONDUCTOR WAVEGUIDES;

MULTIPLEXING EQUIPMENT;

EID: 0033195562     PISSN: 00135194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/el:19991207     Document Type: Article

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