Wideband arrayed waveguide grating with three low-loss maxima per passband

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 18, Issue 21, 2006, Pages 2308-2310

  Doerr, C R ^a   Cappuzzo, M A ^a   Chen, E Y ^a   Wong Foy, A ^a   Gomez, L T ^a   Buhl, L L ^a  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Gratings; Integrated optics; Optical planar waveguide components; Optical planar waveguide couplers; Wavelength division multiplexing

Indexed keywords

ARRAYED WAVEGUIDES; DEMULTIPLEXERS; FIBER-TO-FIBER INSERTION LOSS; LOW LOSS; MULTI-SECTION; OPTICAL PLANAR WAVEGUIDE COMPONENTS; OPTICAL PLANAR WAVEGUIDE COUPLERS; PASS BANDS; THREE-ARM INTERFEROMETER; THREE-WAVEGUIDE DIRECTIONAL COUPLER; WIDE-BAND; WIDTH RATIO;

ARRAYED WAVEGUIDE GRATINGS; INTEGRATED OPTICS; MULTIPLEXING EQUIPMENT; OPTICAL MATERIALS; PHOTONICS; PLANAR WAVEGUIDES; WAVEGUIDE COUPLERS; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 34548244904     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2006.885208     Document Type: Article

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