The acousto-optic effect in single-mode fiber tapers and couplers

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 14, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 2519-2529

  Birks, Tim A ^a,b,c   Russell, Philip St J ^a,b,d,e,f   Culverhouse, D O ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BATH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^c Sch of Phys at the Univ of Bath ^*

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^e HAMBURG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^f IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTOOPTICAL DEVICES; APPROXIMATION THEORY; FREQUENCY SHIFT KEYING; OPTICAL FIBER COUPLING; OPTICAL FILTERS; OPTICAL SWITCHES;

NULL FUSED TAPER COUPLERS; VARIABLE SPLITTERS;

OPTICAL FIBERS;

EID: 0030289309     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/50.548150     Document Type: Article

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