An array of photonic filtering advantages: Arrayed-waveguide-grating multi/demultiplexers for photonic networks

IEEE Circuits and Devices Magazine

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 21-27

  Hibino, Yoshinori ^a  

^a NTT CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; ETALONS; FIBER OPTIC NETWORKS; INTERNET; MULTILAYERS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PHOTONS; THIN FILMS; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

ARRAYED WAVEGUIDE GRATING; OPTICAL ADD DROP MULTIPLEXING SYSTEMS; OPTICAL CROSSCONNECTS; PHOTONIC FILTERING; PHOTONIC NETWORKS;

OPTICAL FILTERS;

EID: 0034318722     PISSN: 87553996     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/101.888868     Document Type: Article

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