Tunable passband flattened 1-from-16 binary-tree structured add-after-drop multiplexer using SiON waveguide technology

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 1201-1203

  Roeloffzen, C G H ^a,b   Horst, F ^a   Offrein, B J ^a   Germann, R ^a   Bona, G L ^a   Salemink, H W M ^a   De Ridder, R M ^b  

^a IBM RESEARCH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL FIBER COUPLING; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON COMPOUNDS; TUNING; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

ADD-DROP MULTIPLEXERS; CASCADED RESONANT COUPLER FILTERS; MIRRORED BINARY TREE; THERMO-OPTIC EFFECTS;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 0034264671     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.874235     Document Type: Article

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