Mirror quality and the performance of reflective arrayed-waveguide grating multiplexers

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1828-1832

  Bernussi, A A ^a   de Peralta, L Grave ^a   Gorbounov, V ^a   Linn, J A ^a   Frisbie, S ^a   Gale, R ^a   Temkin, H ^a  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIAMOND FILMS; LIGHT REFLECTION; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; MIRRORS; OPTICAL DESIGN; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; POLISHING; SILICA; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

DIAMOND LAPPING FILMS; MULTIPLEXER; REFLECTIVE ARRAYED WAVEGUIDE GRATING; SILICA WAVEGUIDES;

FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS;

EID: 3843099314     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2004.831196     Document Type: Article

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