2.5%-Δ silica-based athermal arrayed waveguide grating employing spot-size converters based on segmented core

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 17, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 2325-2327

  Maru, Koichi ^a,b,c   Abe, Yukio ^a   Ito, Masanobu ^a,b   Ishikawa, Hiroshi ^a,b   Himi, Susumu ^a   Uetsuka, Hisato ^a,b   Mizumoto, Tetsuya ^c  

^a HITACHI CABLE LTD   (Japan)

^b Optoelectronic Industry and Technology Development Association   (Japan)

^c TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Gratings; Optical planar waveguides; Optical waveguide filters; Waveguide arrays; Wavelength division multiplexing

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CROSSTALK; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL FILTERS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; SILICA; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

ARRAYED WAVEGUIDE GRATINGS (AWGS); OPTICAL PLANAR WAVEGUIDES; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDE FILTERS; WAVEGUIDE ARRAYS;

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS;

EID: 27744558818     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2005.857233     Document Type: Article

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