A Polymer PLC Platform with a Fiber-Alignment V-Groove for a Low-Cost 10-GbE WWDM Transmitter

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 266-268

  Takahashi, Makoto ^a   Ido, Tatemi ^a   Nagara, Takamitsu ^a  

^a HITACHI LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ethernet; Multimode interference (MMI); Multiplexer; Passive alignment; Planar lightwave circuit (PLC) platform; Wide wavelength division multiplexing (WWDM)

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL CAPACITY; ELECTRODES; LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; SIGNAL INTERFERENCE; SINGLE MODE FIBERS; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

ETHERNET; PLANAR LIGHTWAVE CIRCUITS (PLC);

TRANSMITTERS;

EID: 0346707329     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2003.819406     Document Type: Article

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