Continuously tunable microwave-photonic filter design using high-birefringence linear chirped grating

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 754-756

  Yi, Xiaoke ^a   Lu, Chao ^b   Yang, Xiufeng ^a   Zhong, Wen De ^a   Wei, Fang ^a   Ding, Lei ^a   Wang, Yixin ^b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b INSTITUTE FOR INFOCOMM RESEARCH   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Differential group delay (DGD); Fiber Bragg grating (FBG); Microwave photonics

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; COHERENT LIGHT; FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS; LIGHT INTERFERENCE; OPTICAL FILTERS;

DIFFERENTIAL GROUP DELAY; MICROWAVE PHOTONICS;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 0038190874     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2003.809979     Document Type: Article

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