Widely tunable-constant bandwidth monolithic Fabry-Pérot filter with a stable cavity design for WDM systems

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 14, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 1548-1550

  Strassner, M ^a   Luber, C ^a   Tarraf, A ^b   Chitica, N ^a,c  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KASSEL   (Germany)

^c Zarlink Semiconductor AB   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Microelectromechanical devices; Optical filters; Tunable filters; Wavelength division multiplexing

Indexed keywords

ELECTROSTATICS; MICROELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; MICROELECTRONIC PROCESSING; MIRRORS; MONOLITHIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; OPTICAL RESONATORS; PHOTODETECTORS; SEMICONDUCTING INDIUM PHOSPHIDE; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

DISTRIBUTED BRAGG REFLECTORS; FABRY-PEROT FILTER; MICROMECHANICALLY TUNABLE FILTERS;

OPTICAL FILTERS;

EID: 0036851070     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2002.803876     Document Type: Article

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