Compact and low-loss integrated box-like passband multiplexer

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 15, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 918-920

  Doerr, C R ^a   Stulz, L W ^a   Pafchek, R ^b  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^b TRIQUINT SEMICONDUCTOR   (United States)

Author keywords

Glass materials devices; Gratings; Optical directional couplers; Optical filter; Wavelength division multiplexing

Indexed keywords

CROSSTALK; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; ELECTRIC CONNECTORS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; OPTICAL FILTERS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; WAVEGUIDE COUPLERS;

OPTICAL DIRECTIONAL COUPLERS;

MULTIPLEXING;

EID: 0037664654     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2003.813429     Document Type: Article

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