Multiport wavelength routers using multimode interference

Optical Engineering

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 1078-1081

  Okayama, Hideaki ^a   Kamijoh, Takeshi ^a  

^a OKI ELECTRIC INDUSTRY CO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Grating; Integrated optics; Multimode interference; Wavelength router

Indexed keywords

EID: 3743116597     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.601298     Document Type: Article

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