An estimation of performance degradation due to fabrication errors in AWGs

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 20, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 1779-1787

  Kamalakis, Thomas ^a   Sphicopoulos, Thomas ^a   Syvridis, Dimitris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Crosstalk; Gratings; Integrated optics; Optical filters; Tolerance analysis; Waveguide filters; Wavelength division multiplexing

Indexed keywords

CROSSTALK; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; ERROR ANALYSIS; GRADIENT INDEX OPTICS; INTEGRATED OPTICS; NUMERICAL METHODS; OPTICAL FILTERS; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RANDOM PROCESSES; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

ARRAYED WAVEGUIDE GRATINGS; EFFECTIVE INDEX METHOD; FABRICATION ERRORS; RANDOM PHASE ERRORS; WAVEGUIDE FILTERS;

STATISTICAL OPTICS;

EID: 0036767116     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2002.802231     Document Type: Article

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