GaAs micromachined widely tunable Fabry-Perot filters

Electronics Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 1995, Pages 228-229

  Vail, E C ^a   Wu, M S ^a   Li, G S ^a   Eng, L ^a   Chang Hasnain, C J ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Gallium arsenide; Light interferometry; Nanotechnology; Optical filters

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; HETEROJUNCTIONS; INTERFEROMETRY; MASKS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM ARSENIDE; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; TUNING;

CONTINUOUS TUNING; CRITICAL ALIGNMENTS; LIGHT INTERFEROMETRY;

OPTICAL FILTERS;

EID: 0029632481     PISSN: 00135194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/el:19950102     Document Type: Article

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