Ultralow biased widely continuously tunable Fabry-Pérot filter

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 434-436

  Irmer, Sören ^a   Daleiden, Jürgen ^a   Rangelov, Ventzeslav ^a   Prott, Cornelia ^a   Römer, Friedhard ^a   Strassner, Martin ^b   Tarraf, Amer ^a   Hillmer, Hartmut ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KASSEL   (Germany)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Microelectromechanical devices; Optical communication; Spectral analyses; Tunable filter; Wavelength division multiplexing (WDM)

Indexed keywords

FABRY-PEROT INTERFEROMETERS; METALLORGANIC VAPOR PHASE EPITAXY; MICROELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; MICROMACHINING; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; PHOTORESISTORS; REACTIVE ION ETCHING; SEMICONDUCTING INDIUM GALLIUM ARSENIDE; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

SCANNING WHITE LIGHT INTERFEROMETERS (SWLI);

OPTICAL FILTERS;

EID: 0037345144     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2002.807908     Document Type: Article

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