Band-limited optical mirrors based on ring resonators: Analysis and design

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 23, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 3931-3946

  Schwelb, Otto ^a  

^a Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (Canada)

Author keywords

Group delay; Optical mirror; Quadratic dispersion; Ring resonator

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; ELECTRIC NETWORK PARAMETERS; LIGHT REFLECTION; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; MATRIX ALGEBRA; OPTICAL DESIGN; OPTICAL RESONATORS;

GROUP DELAY; OPTICAL MIRRORS; QUADRATIC DISPERSION; RING RESONATOR;

MIRRORS;

EID: 30344434016     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2005.856228     Document Type: Article

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