Design issues for tunable filters for optical telecommunications

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4679, Issue , 2002, Pages 213-224

  Lewis, Keith ^a   Smith, Gilbert ^a   Mason, Ian ^a   Rochester, Katie ^a  

^a QINETIQ   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acousto optic; Electro optic; Micromachined silicon; Optical communications; Thermo optic; Tunable filters

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTOOPTICAL EFFECTS; ELECTROOPTICAL EFFECTS; LIQUID CRYSTALS; MICROMACHINING; OPTICAL FILTERS; TUNING; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

TUNABLE FILTERS;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 0036033202     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/12.461728     Document Type: Article

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