Compensation for second-order temperature dependence in athermal arrayed-waveguide grating realizing wide temperature range operation

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 21, Issue 22, 2009, Pages 1695-1697

  Kamei, Shin ^a   Shibata, Tomohiro ^a   Inoue, Yasuyuki ^a  

^a NTT CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Arrayed waveguide grating (AWG); Athermal; Optical planar waveguide components; Planar lightwave circuit (PLC); Wavelength division multiplexing

Indexed keywords

ARRAYED-WAVEGUIDE GRATING (AWG); ATHERMAL; COMPENSATION TECHNIQUES; DEMULTIPLEXERS; INPUT PORT; OPERATING TEMPERATURE; OPTICAL FIELD; OPTICAL PLANAR WAVEGUIDE COMPONENTS; PASS BANDS; PLANAR LIGHTWAVE CIRCUIT (PLC); SECOND ORDERS; SLAB WAVEGUIDES; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; TEMPERATURE RANGE;

ARRAYED WAVEGUIDE GRATINGS; MULTIPLEXING EQUIPMENT; OPTICAL FILTERS; PLANAR WAVEGUIDES; RESINS; SILICA; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS; WAVEGUIDE COMPONENTS; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 70350702832     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2009.2031819     Document Type: Article

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