Eight-wavelength add-drop filter with true reconfigurability

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 138-140

  Doerr, C R ^a   Stulz, L W ^a   Levy, D S ^a   Gomez, L ^a   Cappuzzo, M ^a   Bailey, J ^a   Long, R ^a   Wong Foy, A ^a   Laskowski, E ^a   Chen, E ^a   Patel, S ^a   Murphy, T ^a  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Glass materials devices; Gratings; Optical filter; Optical phase shifters; Wavelength division multiplexing

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; INTEGRATED OPTICS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; SILICA; SWITCHING SYSTEMS; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

ADD-DROP FILTER; EIGHT WAVELENGTH FILTER; OPTICAL PHASE SHIFTERS; SILICA WAVEGUIDE;

OPTICAL FILTERS;

EID: 0037246070     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2002.802382     Document Type: Article

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