Photonic bandpass filters with high skirt selectivity and stopband attenuation

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 20, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 1962-1967

  Chan, Erwin H W ^a   Alameh, Kamal E ^a,b   Minasian, Robert A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b EDITH COWAN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bandpass filters; Gratings; Optical fiber delay lines; Optical filters; Optical signal processing

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ATTENUATION; FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS; OPTICAL FILTERS; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

OPTICAL FIBER DELAY LINES;

BANDPASS FILTERS;

EID: 0036875680     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2002.804018     Document Type: Article

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