Wavelength-tunable spectral filters based on the optical rotatory dispersion effect

Applied Optics

Volumn 42, Issue 22, 2003, Pages 4505-4513

  Ye, Chun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC DISPERSION; POLARIZATION; TUNING;

DISPERSIVE POLARIZATION;

OPTICAL FILTERS;

EID: 0041379903     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.42.004505     Document Type: Article

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