Recent progress on arrayed-waveguide grating wavelength multiplexer

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5595, Issue , 2004, Pages 339-348

  Hida, Yasuhiro ^a  

^a NTT CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Arrayed waveguide grating; Planar lightwave circuit; Silica based waveguide; Wavelength multiplexer

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; CROSSTALK; DENSE WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; INTERNET; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL SWITCHES; PHOTOSENSITIVITY; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS; TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES; WAVEGUIDE ATTENUATORS;

ARRAYED-WAVEGUIDE GRATINGS; PLANAR LIGHTWAVE CIRCUITS; POLARIZATION DEPENDENT LOSS (PDL); SILICA-BASED WAVEGUIDES; THERMO-OPTIC (TO) SWITCHES; VARIABLE OPTICAL ATTENUATORS (VOA); WAVELENGTH MULTIPLEXERS;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 17044371619     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.580470     Document Type: Conference Paper

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