Design of tunable composite spectrums using all-fiber acoustooptical filters subject to strain control

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1855-1864

  Li, Hao ^a   Zhang, Ying ^b   Wen, Changyun ^a   Soh, Yeng Chai ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b SINGAPORE INSTITUTE OF MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Acousto optical tunable filter (AOTF); Bandstop filter; Fiber optics; Optical filter; Tunable filter

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTOOPTICAL DEVICES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL DESIGN; OPTICAL FILTERS; STRAIN CONTROL;

ACOUSTOOPTICAL FILTERS; ALL-FIBER FILTERS; BANDSTOP FILTER; FILTER DESIGN; TUNABLE COMPOSITE SPECTRUMS; TUNABLE FILTER;

FIBER OPTICS;

EID: 33645810606     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2006.870979     Document Type: Article

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