Tunable Optical Add-Drop Multiplexer Based on Silicon Photonic Wire Waveguides

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 18, Issue 13, 2006, Pages 1409-1411

  Chu, Tao ^a,b   Yamada, Hirohito ^a,b,c   Ishida, Satomi ^d   Arakawa, Yasuhiko ^a,d  

^a IEEE   (Japan)

^b Optoelectronic Industry and Technology Development Association (OITDA)   (Japan)

^c NEC CORPORATION   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Gratings; Integrated optics; Mach Zehnder interferometer; Optical waveguide components; Thermooptic effects; Wavelength division multiplexing (WDM)

Indexed keywords

ADD-DROP MULTIPLEXERS; PHOTONIC WIRE WAVEGUIDES; WAVELENGTH SHIFT; WAVELENGTH SPACING;

BRAGG GRATINGS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; MIRRORS; OPTICAL SWITCHES; TUNING; WAVELENGTH;

MULTIPLEXING;

EID: 33845666067     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2006.877233     Document Type: Article

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