Tunable optical filters for dense WDM networks

IEEE Communications Magazine

Volumn 36, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 50-55

  Sadot, Dan ^a,b   Boimovich, Efraim ^a,c,d  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

^c MOTOROLA INC   (United States)

^d Optical Commun Research Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; FABRY-PEROT INTERFEROMETERS; FIBER OPTIC NETWORKS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

TUNABLE OPTICAL FILTERS;

OPTICAL FILTERS;

EID: 0032302125     PISSN: 01636804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/35.735877     Document Type: Article

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