Experimental demonstration of cascaded AWG access network featuring bi-directional transmission and polarization multiplexing

Optics Express

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 764-769

  Tsalamanis, Ioannis ^a   Rochat, Etienne ^a   Walker, Stuart D ^a   Parker, Michael C ^b   Holburn, D M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b Fujitsu Laboratories of Europe Ltd   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIT ERROR RATE; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; FIBER OPTICS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; WAVEGUIDES;

ARRAYED WAVEGUIDE GRATING (AWG) ACCESS NETWORKS; ERROR FREE TRANSMISSION; OPTICAL PATH;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 2942729886     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.12.000764     Document Type: Article

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