Birefringence compensated AWG demultiplexer with angled star couplers

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 23, 2007, Pages 15022-15028

  Lang, Tingting ^a   He, Jian Jun ^a   Kuang, Jing Guo ^a   He, Sailing ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEMULTIPLEXING; DIFFRACTION;

ANGLED STAR COUPLERS; SLAB WAVEGUIDES; STAR COUPLER SHAPE;

ARRAYED WAVEGUIDE GRATINGS;

EID: 36248985217     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.015022     Document Type: Article

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