High strain-induced wavelength tunability in tapered fibre acousto-optic filters

Electronics Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 14, 2000, Pages 1187-1188

  Diez, A ^a,b   Kakarantzas, G ^a   Birks, T A ^a   Russell, P St J ^a  

^a University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTOOPTICAL EFFECTS; FIBER OPTICS; STRAIN;

TAPERED FIBER ACOUSTOOPTIC FILTERS;

OPTICAL FILTERS;

EID: 0033687721     PISSN: 00135194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/el:20000866     Document Type: Article

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