Demonstration of flat-passband multi/demultiplexer using multi-input arrayed waveguide grating combined with cascaded Mach-Zehnder interferometers

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 2187-2197

  Maru, Koichi ^a,b   Mizumoto, Tetsuya ^a   Uetsuka, Hisato ^b,c  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b HITACHI CABLE LTD   (Japan)

^c Optoelectronic Industry and Technology Development Association   (Japan)

Author keywords

Integrated optics; Optical planar waveguides; Optical waveguide filters; Passband flattening; Waveguide arrays; Wavelength division multiplexing (WDM)

Indexed keywords

ARRAYED WAVEGUIDE GRATINGS; CHROMATIC DISPERSION; DEMULTIPLEXING; MACH-ZEHNDER INTERFEROMETERS; OPTICAL FILTERS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

FLAT-PASSBAND MULTI/DEMULTIPLEXER; SILICA WAVEGUIDES;

INTEGRATED OPTICS;

EID: 34548272035     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2007.901339     Document Type: Article

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