Guided wave acousto-optic and electro-optic tunable filter designs with relaxed beam-splitter requirements

Applied Optics

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 124-128

  Taylor, Henry F ^a   Eknoyan, Ohannes ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0009538732     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.39.000124     Document Type: Article

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