Monolithically integrated 32 × four-channel client reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexer on planar lightwave circuit

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 15, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 1413-1415

  Chen, Wenlu ^a   Zhu, Zhonghua ^a   Chen, Yung Jui Ray ^a   Sun, Jacob ^b   Grek, Boris ^b   Schmidt, Kevin ^b  

^a Baltimore County   (United States)

^b Axon Photonics Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Client reconfigurable; OADM; PLC; WDM

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON DEVICE MANUFACTURE; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; SILICA; SILICON WAFERS; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

CLIENT RECONFIGURABLE; OPTICAL ADD DROP MULTIPLEXER; PLANAR LIGHTWAVE CIRCUIT;

MULTIPLEXING EQUIPMENT;

EID: 0141918521     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2003.818220     Document Type: Article

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