Low-cost electrothermally tunable optical microcavities based on GaAs

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 14, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 1566-1568

  Riemenschneider, F ^b   Aziz, M ^b   Halbritter, H ^b   Sagnes, I ^c   Meissner, P ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c UNIV PARIS SUD   (France)

Author keywords

Microelectromechanical devices; Optical fiber communication; Optical filters; Optical resonators; Tunable filters; Wavelength division multiplexing (WDM)

Indexed keywords

FIBER OPTIC NETWORKS; MICROELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; OPTICAL FILTERS; OPTICAL RESONATORS; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM ARSENIDE; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

OPTICAL MICROCAVITIES; TUNABLE FILTERS;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 0036851108     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2002.803371     Document Type: Article

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