Nonuniform arrayed waveguide gratings for flat-top passband transfer function

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 25, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 3678-3685

  Gholipour, Alireza ^a   Faraji Dana, Reza ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

Arrayed waveguide grating (AWG); Quasi Newton optimization method; Wavelength division multiplexing (WDM)

Indexed keywords

ARRAYED WAVEGUIDE GRATING (AWG); ARRAYED WAVEGUIDES; BROAD BANDWIDTHS; CLOSED-FORM EXPRESSIONS; FAST CONVERGENCES; FLAT TOPS; FLAT-TOP RESPONSE; GRADIENT VECTORS; MATHEMATICAL DERIVATIONS; NON-UNIFORM; OBJECTIVE FUNCTIONS; OPTIMIZATION METHODS; OPTIMIZATION VARIABLES; PASS BANDS; PASSBAND FREQUENCIES; QUASI-NEWTON OPTIMIZATION METHOD; QUASI-NEWTON OPTIMIZATIONS; WAVELENGTH-DIVISION MULTIPLEXING (WDM);

ARRAYED WAVEGUIDE GRATINGS; FREQUENCY RESPONSE; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; OPTIMIZATION; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS; WAVEGUIDES; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

EID: 58449091175     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2007.909352     Document Type: Article

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