Silicon photonic dynamic optical channel leveler with external feedback loop

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 13, 2010, Pages 13805-13812

  Doylend, J K ^a   Jessop, P E ^a   Knights, A P ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ATTENUATION; FEEDBACK; PHOTODIODES;

BLIND CHANNEL; DYNAMIC RANGE; ELECTRICAL POWER; FEED-BACK LOOP; OPTICAL CHANNELS; OPTICAL POWER; SILICON PHOTONICS; VARIABLE OPTICAL ATTENUATORS;

PHOTONIC DEVICES;

GLASS FIBER; SILICON;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FIBER OPTICS; INSTRUMENTATION; INTERFEROMETRY; METHODOLOGY; OPTICS; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEEDBACK; FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; INTERFEROMETRY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; SILICON;

EID: 77953834924     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.013805     Document Type: Article

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