Silica-based planar lightwave circuits: Passive and thermally active devices

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 38-45

  Miya, Tetsuo ^a  

^a NTT CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; HYBRID INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; MULTIPLEXING EQUIPMENT; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

PLANAR LIGHTWAVE CIRCUITS (PLC);

INTEGRATED OPTOELECTRONICS;

EID: 0033898955     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/2944.826871     Document Type: Article

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