Recent progress on arrayed waveguide gratings for DWDM applications

IEICE Transactions on Electronics

Volumn E83-C, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 860-867

  Kaneko, Akimasa ^a   Sugita, Aldo ^a   Okamoto, Katsunari ^a  

^a NTT CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Arrayed waveguide grating (awg); Athermal awg; Flat passband awg; Polarization independent awg; Silica based planar lightwave circuits (plc)

Indexed keywords

FIBER OPTIC NETWORKS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL FILTERS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

ARRAYED WAVEGUIDE GRATINGS (AWG); DENSE WAVELENGTH-DIVISION MULTIPLEXING (DWDM) NETWORKS; FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS (FBG); PLANAR LIGHT WAVE CIRCUITS (PLC);

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS;

EID: 0034196092     PISSN: 09168524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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