Recent progress on athermal AWG wavelength multiplexer

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6014, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Kamei, Shin ^a   Inoue, Yasuyuki ^a   Kaneko, Akimasa ^a   Shibata, Tomohiro ^a   Takahashi, Hiroshi ^a  

^a NTT CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Athermal; AWG; Multiplexer; Planar waveguide circuit; Wavelength division multiplexing

Indexed keywords

DESIGN; FABRICATION; INSERTION LOSSES; SILICA; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

ATHERMAL; ATHERMALIZATION TECHNIQUES; AWG; MULTIPLEXER; PLANAR WAVEGUIDE CIRCUIT;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 33644747456     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.631988     Document Type: Conference Paper

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