Tunable dispersion compensator based on distributed Gires-Tournois etalons

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 1111-1113

  Shu, Xuewen ^a   Sugden, Kate ^a   Rhead, Philip ^a   Mitchell, John ^a   Felmeri, Ian ^a   Lloyd, Glynn ^a   Byron, Kevin ^a   Huang, Zhijian ^b   Khrushchev, Igor ^b   Bennion, Ian ^b  

^a Indigo Photonics Ltd   (United Kingdom)

^b ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bragg grating; Dispersion; Dispersion compensation; Etalons; Tunable dispersion compensator (TDC)

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; FIBER OPTIC NETWORKS; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; TUNING;

TUNABLE DISPERSION COMPENSATORS (TDC);

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 0042524676     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2003.814879     Document Type: Article

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