Potentially low-startup-cost wavelength add-drop node using silica waveguide integration

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 22, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 2755-2762

  Doerr, C R ^a   Stulz, L W ^a   Levy, D S ^a   Pafchek, R ^b   Cappuzzo, M ^a   Gomez, L ^a   Wong Foy, A ^a   Chen, E ^a   Laskowski, E ^a   Bogert, G ^b   Richards, G ^a  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^b TRIQUINT SEMICONDUCTOR   (United States)

Author keywords

Glass materials devices; Gratings; Optical filter; Optical phase shifters; Wavelength division multiplexing (WDM)

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; OPTICAL FILTERS; OPTICAL GLASS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC;

GLASS DEVICES; GLASS MATERIALS; OPTICAL PHASE SHIFTERS; WAVELENGTH SELECTIVE CROSS CONNECT TYPE ADD DROP NODE;

WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

EID: 19944428070     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2003.822830     Document Type: Article

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