Compact all-fiber acoustooptic tunable filters with small bandwidth-length product

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 1210-1212

  Dimmick, Timothy E ^a,b   Kakarantzas, George ^a   Birks, Timothy A ^a   Diez, Antonio ^a   Russell, Philip St J ^a  

^a University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

^b LABORATORY FOR PHYSICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTOOPTICAL DEVICES; BANDWIDTH; LIGHT POLARIZATION; NOTCH FILTERS; OPTICAL FIBERS; TUNING;

ALL-FIBER ACOUSTOOPTICAL TUNABLE FILTERS (AOTF);

OPTICAL FILTERS;

EID: 0034266571     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.874238     Document Type: Article

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