Novel architecture for design of planar lightwave interleavers

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 1435-1440

  Bidnyk, Serge ^a   Balakrishnan, Ashok ^a   Delâge, André ^b   Gao, Mae ^a   Krug, Peter A ^c   Muthukumaran, Packirisamy ^d   Pearson, Matt ^a  

^a Enablence Inc   (Canada)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^c Metconnex Inc   (Canada)

^d Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

Author keywords

Gratings; Interleaver; Optical waveguide filters; Wavelength division multiplexing (WDM)

Indexed keywords

ABERRATIONS; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; INSERTION LOSSES; OPTICAL DESIGN; OPTICAL FILTERS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; REFRACTIVE INDEX; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

INTERLEAVER DEVICES; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDE FILTERS;

OPTICAL DEVICES;

EID: 18144386571     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2004.841430     Document Type: Article

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