Extremely low-loss 1.5%-Δ 32-channel athermal arrayed-waveguide grating multi/demultiplexer

Electronics Letters

Volumn 41, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 544-546

  Kamei, S ^a   Inoue, Y ^a   Mizuno, T ^a   Iemura, K ^a   Shibata, T ^a   Kaneko, A ^a   Takahashi, H ^a  

^a NTT CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL CAPACITY; CROSSTALK; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; HYDROLYSIS; INSERTION LOSSES; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; SILICON; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

ARRAYED WAVEGUIDE GRATINGS (AWG); ATHERMALIZATION TECHNIQUES; PLANAR LIGHTWAVE CIRCUITS (PLC); SILICONE-FILLED GROOVES;

DEMULTIPLEXING;

EID: 18744371886     PISSN: 00135194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/el:20050319     Document Type: Article

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