Design of tunable optical filter using ladder-interference-type structure

Guangxue Jingmi Gongcheng/Optics and Precision Engineering

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 627-632

  Pan, Wei ^a,b   Zhang, Xiao Xia ^b   Luo, Bin ^a   Zou, Xi Hua ^a   Wang, Meng Yao ^a   Zhang, Wei Li ^a  

^a SOUTHWEST JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

Continuous tuning; Guided wave optics; Ladder interference type structure; Splitting ratio; Tunable optical filter

Indexed keywords

LIGHT INTERFERENCE; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; OPTICAL BEAM SPLITTERS; OPTICAL DESIGN; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; STRUCTURAL DESIGN; TUNING;

CONTINUOUS TUNING; GUIDED WAVE OPTICS; LADDER INTERFERENCE TYPE STRUCTURE; SPLITTING RATIO; TUNABLE OPTICAL FILTER;

OPTICAL FILTERS;

EID: 33344460975     PISSN: 1004924X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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