Heat control of an integrated silica VMUX using constant working power

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1054-1058

  Zhang, Zhiyi ^a   Sun, Fengguo ^a   Lin, Peng ^a   Xiao, Gaozhi ^a   Wu, Yaming ^b  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^b SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF MICROSYSTEM AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Arrayed waveguide grating (AWG); Integration; Silica waveguides; Thermal management; Variable multiplexer (VMUX); Variable optical attenuator (VOA)

Indexed keywords

ARRAYED WAVEGUIDE GRATING (AWG); SILICA WAVEGUIDES; THERMAL MANAGEMENT; VARIABLE MULTIPLEXER (VMUX); VARIABLE OPTICAL ATTENUATOR (VOA);

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; MULTIPLEXING; THERMAL EFFECTS; WAVEGUIDES;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 33749853692     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2006.881874     Document Type: Article

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