Mach-Zehnder interferometer exactly aligned with ITU grid frequencies

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 325-327

  Mizuno, T ^a,b   Oguma, M ^b   Kitoh, T ^a,b   Inoue, Y ^a,b   Takahashi, H ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b NTT CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Lattice filters; Optical couplers; Optical delay lines; Optical planar waveguides; Optical waveguide filters; Wavelength division multiplexing (WDM)

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITE STRUCTURES; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; INTERFEROMETERS; INTERFEROMETRY; MACH-ZEHNDER INTERFEROMETERS; OPTICAL DESIGN; OPTICAL FILTERS; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; OPTICAL SWITCHES; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SILICA; SILICATE MINERALS; SILICON COMPOUNDS;

ABSOLUTE FREQUENCY; ARBITRARY FREQUENCIES; BAND CENTERS; FREQUENCY ERRORS; INTERNATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATION UNION GRID; ITU GRID; LATTICE FILTERS; MACH ZEHNDER INTERFEROMETER; MACH-ZEHNDER; NONLINEAR FREQUENCY; OPTICAL COUPLERS; OPTICAL DELAY LINES; OPTICAL PLANAR WAVEGUIDES; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDE FILTERS; PLANAR LIGHTWAVE CIRCUIT TECHNOLOGIES; WAVELENGTH-DIVISION MULTIPLEXING (WDM); WIDE FREQUENCY RANGE;

INTEGRATED OPTOELECTRONICS;

EID: 35548964397     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2005.861980     Document Type: Article

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