Design and analysis of micromechanical tunable interferometers for WDM free-space optical interconnection

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 19-24

  Toshiyoshi, Hiroshi ^a   Kobayashi, Masakazu ^a   Miyauchi, Daisuke ^b   Fujita, Hiroyuki ^a   Podlecki, Jean ^c   Arakawa, Yasuhiko ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b TDK CORPORATION   (Japan)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Fabry Perot interferometer; Free space; Micro machining; Optical interconnection; Wavelength division multiplexing

Indexed keywords

INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; MICROELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; MICROMACHINING; OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS; PHOTODIODES; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

WAVELENGTH TUNABLE LASER DIODES;

FABRY-PEROT INTERFEROMETERS;

EID: 0032804925     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/50.737416     Document Type: Article

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