Tuneable liquid crystal Fabry-Perot filters

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4944, Issue , 2002, Pages 293-302

  Vogel, Wolfgang ^a   Berroth, Manfred ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

Fabry Perot interferometer; Liquid crystal; Metropolitan area networks; Polarization; Tuneable optical filter; WDM transmission systems

Indexed keywords

ELECTRODES; FABRY-PEROT INTERFEROMETERS; FLAT PANEL DISPLAYS; GOLD; INSERTION LOSSES; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAYS; METROPOLITAN AREA NETWORKS; MIRRORS; OPTICAL COLLIMATORS; SINGLE MODE FIBERS; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

DIELECTRIC MIRROR; LIQUID CRYSTAL FABRY-PEROT INTERFEROMETER; TUNABLE OPTICAL FILTER; TWISTED NEMATIC STRUCTURE;

OPTICAL FILTERS;

EID: 0042231971     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.470340     Document Type: Conference Paper

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