Properties of a novel noncascaded type, easy-to-design, ripple-free optical bandpass filter

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 1461-1469

  Dingel, Benjamin B ^a   Aruga, Tadashi ^a  

^a Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDPASS FILTERS; CONTROL SYSTEM SYNTHESIS; FREQUENCY RESPONSE; INTERFEROMETERS; OPTICAL RESONATORS; REFLECTOMETERS; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

CENTER WAVELENGTH TUNABILITY; GIRES-TOURNOIS RESONATOR; INFINITE REJECTION RATIO; MICHELSON INTERFEROMETER; NONCASCADED TYPE FILTERS; PASSBAND REGION; SHARP STEEPNESS CHARACTERISTICS; SPECTRAL FILTERING CHARACTERISTICS; STOPBAND REGION; UNITY TRANSMISSION;

OPTICAL FILTERS;

EID: 0033350064     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/50.779169     Document Type: Article

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