Planar lightwave circuit eight-channel CWDM multiplexer with <3.9-dB insertion loss

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 62-65

  Doerr, Christopher Richard ^a   Cappuzzo, M ^a   Gomez, L ^a   Chen, E ^a   Wong Foy, A ^a   Ho, C ^b   Lam, J ^b   McGreer, K ^b  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^b NeoPhotonics   (United States)

Author keywords

Demultiplexing; Gratings; Integrated optics; Optical fiber communication; Optical filters; Wavelength division multiplexing (WDM)

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); CROSSTALK; DEMULTIPLEXING; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; INSERTION LOSSES; INTEGRATED OPTICS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL FILTERS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

COARSE WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; PLANAR LIGHTWAVE CIRCUITS;

WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

EID: 13244292390     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2004.840029     Document Type: Article

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