Optimal design of planar wavelength circuits based on Mach-Zehnder interferometers and their cascaded forms

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 1284-1290

  Wang, Qian ^a,b,c   He, Sailing ^a,b,c  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^c ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Coarse wavelength division demultiplexers; Genetic algorithm; Mach Zehnder interferometers; Optical directional couplers; Wavelength dependence

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; DEMULTIPLEXING; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; INTEGRATED OPTOELECTRONICS; INTERFEROMETERS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL DESIGN; REFRACTIVE INDEX; WAVEGUIDE COUPLERS; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

COARSE WAVELENGTH DIVISION DEMULTIPLEXERS; MACH-ZEHNDER INTERFEROMETERS; OPTICAL DIRECTIONAL COUPLERS; PLANAR WAVELENGTH CIRCUITS; WAVELENGTH DEPENDENCE;

INTEGRATED OPTICS;

EID: 18144420833     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2004.839985     Document Type: Article

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