Cascaded Mach-Zehnder wavelength filters in silicon photonics for low loss and flat pass-band WDM (de-)multiplexing

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 11652-11658

  Horst, Folkert ^a   Green, William M J ^b   Assefa, Solomon ^b   Shank, Steven M ^c   Vlasov, Yurii A ^b   Offrein, Bert Jan ^a  

^a IBM RESEARCH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c IBM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINARY TREES; MULTIPLEXING; MULTIPLEXING EQUIPMENT; PHOTONIC DEVICES; PHOTONICS;

CHANNEL SPACINGS; LARGE-SCALE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; LATTICE FILTERS; LOW INSERTION LOSS; MACH-ZEHNDER; SILICON PHOTONICS; SMALL DEVICES; WAVELENGTH FILTERS;

BANDPASS FILTERS;

SILICON;

CHEMISTRY; DEVICE FAILURE ANALYSIS; DEVICES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FILTRATION; LIGHT; PHOTOMETRY; REFRACTOMETRY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TELECOMMUNICATION; ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT FAILURE;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FILTRATION; LIGHT; PHOTOMETRY; REFRACTOMETRY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SILICON; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TELECOMMUNICATIONS;

EID: 84878587826     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.011652     Document Type: Article

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