Design of double-passed arrayed-waveguide gratings for the generation of flat-topped femtosecond pulse trains

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 586-597

  Muralidharan, Bhaskaran ^b   Balakrishnan, Venkataramanan ^a,b   Weiner, Andrew M ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Arrayed waveguide grating (AWG); Optical pulse generation; Phase only filter; Wavelength division multiplexing (WDM)

Indexed keywords

ARRAYED WAVEGUIDE GRATING (AWG); FEMTOSECOND FLAT TOPPED PULSE SEQUENCE GENERATION; NUMERICAL OPTIMIZATION; PHASE ONLY FILTERS;

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; INSERTION LOSSES; OPTICAL FILTERS; OPTIMIZATION; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); WAVEGUIDES; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

PULSE GENERATORS;

EID: 33947691633     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2005.860154     Document Type: Article

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