Chromatic dispersion and bandshape improvement of SOI flatband AWG multi/demultiplexers by phase-error correction

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 15, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 924-926

  Thompson, Mark G ^a,b   Brady, Dominic ^a   Roberts, Stephen W ^a  

^a Bookham Technology   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Demultiplexing; Multiplexing; Optical planar waveguide components; Optical waveguide filters; Silicon on insulator (SOI) technology; Waveguide arrays; Wavelength division multiplexing

Indexed keywords

DEMULTIPLEXING; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; DISPERSION (WAVES); MULTIPLEXING; OPTICAL FILTERS;

ARRAYED WAVEGUIDE GRATING (AWG);

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 0037664658     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2003.813417     Document Type: Article

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