Compact single-chip VMUX/DEMUX on the silicon-on-insulator platform

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 6125-6130

  Feng, Dazeng ^a   Feng, Ning Ning ^a   Kung, Cheng Chih ^a   Liang, Hong ^a   Qian, Wei ^a   Fong, Joan ^a   Luff, B Jonathan ^a   Asghari, Mehdi ^a  

^a KOTURA INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MONOLITHIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; MULTIPLEXING; MULTIPLEXING EQUIPMENT;

DEPENDENT FREQUENCIES; ECHELLE GRATINGS; FLAT-TOP; HIGH-SPEED; MONOLITHIC INTEGRATION; MULTI/DEMULTIPLEXERS; ON CHIPS; RESPONSE SPEED; SILICON ON INSULATOR; SILICON-ON-INSULATORS; SINGLE-CHIP; VARIABLE ATTENUATORS;

DENSE WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

SILICON;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; REFRACTOMETRY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TELECOMMUNICATION;

ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; OPTICAL DEVICES; REFRACTOMETRY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SILICON; TELECOMMUNICATIONS;

EID: 79953196541     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.006125     Document Type: Article

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