Cascadability of passband-flattened arrayed waveguide-grating filters in WDM optical networks

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 1414-1416

  Otani, T ^a,b   Antoniades, N ^a,c   Roudas, I ^a,c   Stern, T E ^a  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b KDDI R AND D LABORATORIES INC   (Japan)

^c Coming Inc ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; ELECTRIC NETWORK SYNTHESIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MULTIPLEXING EQUIPMENT; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

ARRAYED WAVEGUIDE GRATINGS (AWG); DEMULTIPLEXERS;

OPTICAL FILTERS;

EID: 0033221968     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.803063     Document Type: Article

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