Ultrahigh-efficiency, very narrowpassband, tunable optical filter

Applied Optics

Volumn 33, Issue 36, 1994, Pages 8325-8329

  Sandford, Stephen P ^a   Thomas, Milfred E ^b  

^a NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALIGNMENT; BANDPASS FILTERS; CALCULATIONS; FABRICATION; MIRRORS; OPTICAL DESIGN; OPTICAL RADAR; PERFORMANCE; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

DOPPLER BROADENING; FABRY PEROT FILTERS; FREE SPECTRAL RANGE; LINEWIDTH; MODE MATCHING; PASSBAND; WAVELENGTH;

OPTICAL FILTERS;

EID: 0028740795     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.33.008325     Document Type: Article

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