Deep-etched high-density fused-silica transmission gratings with high efficiency at a wavelength of 1550 nm

Applied Optics

Volumn 45, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 2567-2571

  Wang, Shunquan ^a,b   Zhou, Changhe ^a,b   Zhang, Yanyan ^a,b   Ru, Huayi ^a,b  

^a SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF OPTICS AND FINE MECHANICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA; OPTICAL FIBER FABRICATION; PLASMA ETCHING; POLARIZATION; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

DEEP-ETCHED HIGH-DENSITY FUSED-SILICA TRANSMISSION GRATINGS; DENSE WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING (DWDM) SYSTEMS; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA-ETCHING; PARALLEL DEMULTIPLEXING;

SILICA;

EID: 33745131380     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.45.002567     Document Type: Article

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