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Fiber Optical waveguide
jumpers
VOA connections
VOA
VOA VOA
VOA
VOA
AWG • AWG •
AWG
AWG
• •
VOA
• VOA
VOA One substrate
VOA
Nine discrete
packages
Figure 20.5. Example of planar lightwave circuit (PLC)
technology. Here an AWG and eight VOAs are combined
into a single PLC device.

Figure 20.6. Example of PLC technology showing the integration of eight EDWA
devices plus associated signal and pump multiplexers on a single substrate. (Photo
courtesy of NKT Integration; www.nktintegration.com.)

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