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Bidirectional wavelength add-drop multiplexer using multiport optical circulators and fiber Bragg gratings

Kim et al., 2000

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11585592751828955211
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Kim J
Lee B
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IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

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We propose and experimentally demonstrate a new of bidirectional wavelength add-drop multiplexer using multiport optical circulators and fiber Bragg gratings. It has the efficient suppression of the unwanted light caused by Rayleigh backscattering and optical reflection …
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