Analysis and design of almost-periodic vertical-grating-assisted codirectional coupler filters with nonuniform duty ratios

Applied Optics

Volumn 39, Issue 25, 2000, Pages 4629-4637

  Chern, Gia Wei ^a   Wang, Lon A ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARRAYS; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

LINEAR FILTERS;

OPTICAL FILTERS;

EID: 0012939053     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.39.004629     Document Type: Article

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