Using a tapered MMI to flatten the passband of an AWG

Optics Communications

Volumn 219, Issue 1-6, 2003, Pages 233-239

  Dai, Daoxin ^a   Mei, Weiquan ^a   He, Sailing ^a,b  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

AWG; Flat top; MMI; Spectral response; Taper; WDM

Indexed keywords

CROSSTALK; INSERTION LOSSES; INTERFEROMETERS; MULTIMODE FIBERS; WAVEGUIDES; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

MULTIMODE INTERFEROMETERS (MMI);

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS;

EID: 0037446799     PISSN: 00304018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0030-4018(03)01297-5     Document Type: Article

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