Optical transmission characteristics of fiber ring resonators

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 726-730

  Heebner, John E ^a,b   Wong, Vincent ^a   Schweinsberg, Aaron ^a   Boyd, Robert W ^a   Jackson, Deborah J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Delay effects; Interferometry; Optical fiber coupling; Optical fiber delay lines; Resonators

Indexed keywords

INTERFEROMETRY; OPTICAL BEAM SPLITTERS; OPTICAL FIBER COUPLING; OPTICAL RESONATORS; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

DELAY EFFECTS; FIBER RING RESONATORS; OPTICAL FIBER DELAY LINES;

LIGHT TRANSMISSION;

EID: 3042551238     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JQE.2004.828232     Document Type: Article

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