Flattopped tunable wavelength-division-multiplexer filter design

Applied Optics

Volumn 38, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 1692-1699

  Yang, Miao ^a   Gu, Claire ^a  

^a University of California   (United States)

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EID: 0000897912     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.38.001692     Document Type: Article

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