Multiaperture planar waveguide spectrometer formed by arrayed Mach-Zehnder interferometers

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 26, 2007, Pages 18176-18189

  Florjańczyk, Mirosław ^a,b   Cheben, Pavel ^b   Janz, Siegfried ^b   Scott, Alan ^c   Solheim, Brian ^a   Xu, Dan Xia ^b  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^c COM DEV Ltd ^*  (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; MACH-ZEHNDER INTERFEROMETERS; THROUGHPUT; WAVELENGTH;

DESIGN RULES; MULTIAPERTURE PLANAR WAVEGUIDE SPECTROMETERS; SINGLE INPUT SPECTROMETERS; WAVELENGTH RANGE;

PLANAR WAVEGUIDES;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; INTERFEROMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECTROSCOPY; TRANSDUCER;

COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; INTERFEROMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 37549046458     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.018176     Document Type: Article

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