MEMS widely tunable lasers for WDM system applications

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4907, Issue , 2002, Pages 186-194

  Liu, A Q ^a   Zhang, X M ^a   Tang, D Y ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Blazed grating; DWDM; External cavity tunable laser; Optical MEMS; Tunable laser

Indexed keywords

DENSE WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; FIBER OPTIC NETWORKS; LASER TUNING; MICROELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; MIRRORS;

TUNABLE LASERS;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 0036458947     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.482270     Document Type: Conference Paper

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