Tunable power splitter based on an electro-optic multimode interference device

Applied Optics

Volumn 46, Issue 19, 2007, Pages 4155-4161

  Thapliya, Roshan ^a   Kikuchi, Takashi ^a   Nakamura, Shigetoshi ^a  

^a FUJI XEROX CO LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROOPTICAL DEVICES; POWER CONTROL; TUNING; VOLTAGE CONTROL;

MULTIMODE INTERFERENCE (MMI) DEVICES; POWER SPLITTING RATIOS; TUNABLE POWER SPLITTERS;

POWER ELECTRONICS;

EID: 34548292991     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.46.004155     Document Type: Conference Paper

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