Multimode optical demultiplexer for DWDM with liquid crystal enabled functionalities

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 16, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 2254-2256

  Huang, Ming Jay ^a   Pan, Ru Pin ^b   Sheu, Chia Rong ^a   Lan, Yu Ping ^a   Lai, Yi Fan ^b   Pan, Ci Ling ^b  

^a INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); CROSSTALK; DEMULTIPLEXING; DENSE WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; LIGHT EXTINCTION; LIGHT MODULATORS; LIQUID CRYSTALS; MULTIMODE FIBERS; OPTICAL SWITCHES;

CHANNEL CROSSTALK; DEMULTIPLEXER (DEMUX); LIQUID CRYSTAL ENABLED FUNCTIONALITIES; MULTIMODE FIBER ARRAY; MULTIMODE OPTICAL DEMULTIPLEXER; SPATIAL LIGHT MODULATOR (SLM);

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT;

EID: 5444262624     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2004.834584     Document Type: Article

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