Design of a coarse WDM bandpass filter using the Thelen bandpass design method

Optics Express

Volumn 9, Issue 12, 2001, Pages 652-657

  Baumeister, Philip ^a  

^a Sholem Consultants   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDPASS FILTERS; BANDWIDTH; CHEBYSHEV APPROXIMATION; FIBER OPTICS; OPTIMIZATION; SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING; THIN FILMS;

COUPLERS; OPTICAL THICKNESS; QUARERWAVE STACK;

WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

EID: 0042716746     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.9.000652     Document Type: Article

References (10)

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