Broad-spectral-range synchronized flat-top arrayed-waveguide grating applied in a 225-channel cascaded spectrometer

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 16, 2012, Pages 18313-18318

  Akca, B I ^a   Doerr, C R ^b   Sengo, G ^a   Worhoff K ^a   Pollnau, M ^a   De Ridder, R M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b Acacia Communications Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SYNCHRONIZATION;

FLAT-TOP; INPUT SIGNAL; OUTPUT SIGNAL; PASS BANDS; PHASE DEVIATIONS; SPECTRAL RANGE; WAVELENGTH RANGES;

ARRAYED WAVEGUIDE GRATINGS;

EID: 84864807023     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.018313     Document Type: Article

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