Widely tunable optical bandpass filter by use of polymer long-period waveguide gratings

Applied Optics

Volumn 45, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 2755-2760

  Chu, Yiu Man ^a   Chiang, Kin Seng ^a   Liu, Qing ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; OPTICAL FILTERS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; POLYMERS; TEMPERATURE CONTROL;

CHANNEL WAVEGUIDES; OPTICAL BANDPASS FILTERS; PEAK TRANSMISSION;

BANDPASS FILTERS;

EID: 33745181613     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.45.002755     Document Type: Article

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