External cavity wavelength tunable laser with on-chip VOA using etched mirror based integration technology

Electronics Letters

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 347-349

  Sudo, S ^a   Mizutani, K ^a   De Merlier, J ^a   Okamoto, T ^a   Tsuruoka, K ^a   Sato, K ^a   Kudo, K ^a  

^a NEC CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ETCHING; MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS; MIRRORS; TUNING; WAVEGUIDE ATTENUATORS;

OPTICAL ATTENUATOR; TUNABLE LASER; VOA;

LASERS;

EID: 33645215580     PISSN: 00135194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/el:20060056     Document Type: Article

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