Echelle and arrayed waveguide gratings for WDM and spectral analysis

Advances in Information Optics and Photonics

Volumn 6, Issue , 2008, Pages 599-632

  Cheben, Pavel ^a   Delâge, André ^a   Janz, Siegfried ^a   Xu, Dan Xia ^a  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARRAYED WAVEGUIDE GRATINGS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

ECHELLE;

WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 84956797472     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1117/3.793309.ch29     Document Type: Chapter

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