Athermalized low-loss echelle-grating-based multimode dense wavelength division demultiplexer

Applied Optics

Volumn 41, Issue 31, 2002, Pages 6567-6575

  Qiao, Jie ^a,b   Zhao, Feng ^a   Chen, Ray T ^a   Horwitz, James W ^c,d   Morey, William W ^c,e  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^b LNL Technologies   (United States)

^c Radiant Photonics Inc   (United States)

^d RAYTHEON COMPANY   (United States)

^e Sabeus Photonics   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIT ERROR RATE; CROSSTALK; DATA TRANSFER; DENSE WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; THERMOANALYSIS;

DENSE WAVELENGTH DIVISION DEMULTIPLEXERS (DEMUX);

MULTIMODE FIBERS;

EID: 0036849708     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.41.006567     Document Type: Article

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