Potentially inexpensive 10-Gb/s tunable dispersion compensator with low polarization sensitivity

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1340-1342

  Doerr, C R ^a   Cappuzzo, M ^a   Wong Foy, A ^a   Gomez, L ^a   Laskowski, E ^a   Chen, E ^a  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Glass; Integrated optics; Optical equalizers; Optical planar waveguide components

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; ELECTROMAGNETIC DISPERSION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; INTERFEROMETERS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON COMPOUNDS; WAVEGUIDE COMPONENTS;

LOW POLARIZATION SENSITIVITY; MACH ZEHNDER INTERFEROMETER; TUNABLE DISPERSION COMPENSATOR;

INTEGRATED OPTICS;

EID: 2442606404     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2004.826140     Document Type: Article

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