Silica PLC-VOA using suspended narrow ridge structures and its application to V-AWG

OFC/NFOEC 2007 - Optical Fiber Communication and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Hashizume, Yasuaki ^a   Watanabe, Kei ^a   Nasu, Yusuke ^a   Kohtoku, Masaki ^a   Kamei, Shin ^a   Kitoh, Tsutomu ^a   Inoue, Yasuyuki ^a  

^a NTT CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC POWER UTILIZATION; SILICA; WAVEGUIDES;

COMPACT SIZE; NARROW RIDGE STRUCTURES;

PROGRAMMABLE LOGIC CONTROLLERS;

EID: 39749151621     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/OFC.2007.4348918     Document Type: Conference Paper

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