High-speed wavelength-tunable optical filter using cascaded Mach-Zehnder interferometers with apodized sampled gratings

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 44, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 922-930

  Segawa, Toru ^a   Matsuo, Shinji ^a   Ishii, Tetsuyoshi ^a   Ohiso, Yoshitaka ^a   Shibata, Yasuo ^a   Suzuki, Hiroyuki ^a  

^a NTT CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Gratings; Integrated optoelectronics; Optical waveguide filters; Tunable filters; Wavelength division multiplexing (WDM)

Indexed keywords

APODIZATIONS; APODIZED SAMPLED GRATINGS; COMB-LIKE FILTER; EXTINCTION RATIOS; FILTER CHARACTERISTICS; HIGH-SPEED; INGAASP; INP; LOW COSTS; OPTICAL PACKETS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDE FILTER; PHOTONIC PACKET SWITCHING SYSTEM; RIDGE WAVEGUIDES; SAMPLED GRATINGS; SURFACE GRATING; SWITCHING TIME; TRANSMISSION BANDWIDTH; TUNABLE FILTERS; TUNING RANGES; WAVELENGTH TUNABLE; WIDE TUNING RANGE;

CIRCULAR WAVEGUIDES; FIBER OPTIC SENSORS; LIGHT EXTINCTION; MACH-ZEHNDER INTERFEROMETERS; MULTIPLEXING EQUIPMENT; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; OPTICAL SENSORS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PACKET SWITCHING; PHOTONIC DEVICES; TUNING; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

OPTICAL FILTERS;

EID: 77749327694     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JQE.2008.2000920     Document Type: Article

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