Micromechanical tunable optical filters: General design rules for wavelengths from near-IR up to 10 μm

Sensors and Actuators, A: Physical

Volumn 119, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 57-62

  Mateus, Carlos F R ^a   Huang, Michael C Y ^a   Chang Hasnain, Connie J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

MEMS filter; Optical sensors; Optoelectronic devices; Reconfigurable focal plane arrays; Reconfigurable optical networks; Tunable filter

Indexed keywords

CANTILEVER BEAMS; INFRARED RADIATION; LASERS; MICROELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; OPTICAL SENSORS; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; TOPOLOGY;

MEMS FILTERS; RECONFIGURABLE FOCAL PLANE ARRAYS; RECONFIGURABLE OPTICAL NETWORKS; TUNABLE FILTERS;

OPTICAL FILTERS;

EID: 17144407987     PISSN: 09244247     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sna.2004.08.019     Document Type: Article

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