Mono-order high-efficiency dielectric concave diffraction grating

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 30, Issue 17, 2012, Pages 2922-2928

  Pottier, Pierre ^a   Packirisamy, Muthukumaran ^a  

^a Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bragg gratings; diffraction grating; integrated optics; optical design; planar spectrometer; wavelength division multi plexing (WDM)

Indexed keywords

BRAGG CONDITIONS; CONCAVE DIFFRACTION GRATING; DIFFRACTION ORDERS; GRATING DIFFRACTION; GRATING EFFICIENCY; WAVELENGTH DIVISION; WAVELENGTH SPREADING;

BRAGG GRATINGS; DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; DIFFRACTION; INTEGRATED OPTICS; OPTICAL DESIGN;

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS;

EID: 84865787468     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2012.2209111     Document Type: Article

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