Low-voltage continuous tunable hybrid filter for tailored optical-bandwidth operation

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1098-1100

  Benkelfat, Badr Eddine ^a   Zou, Qin ^a   Vinouze, Bruno ^b  

^a INSTITUT NATIONAL DES TÉLÉCOMMUNICATIONS   (France)

^b ECOLE DES MINES DE NANTES   (France)

Author keywords

Birefringence; Liquid crystals (LCs); Optical filters; Polarization; Tunable filters

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; BIREFRINGENCE; ELECTROOPTICAL EFFECTS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIQUID CRYSTALS; THRESHOLD VOLTAGE; TUNING; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

DEMULTIPLEXERS; LOW VOLTAGE CONTINOUS TUNABLE HYBRID FILTER; MULTIWAVELENGTH SYSTEMS; TAILORED OPTICAL BANDWIDTH OPERATION; TUNABLE FILTERS;

OPTICAL FILTERS;

EID: 1942500925     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2004.824670     Document Type: Article

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