Flexible all fiber Fabry-Perot filters based on superimposed chirped fiber Bragg gratings with continuous FSR tunability and its application to a multiwavelength fiber laser

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 2921-2926

  Han, Young Geun ^a   Dong, Xinyong ^b   Kim, Chang Seok ^c   Jeong, Myung Yung ^c   Lee, Ju Han ^d  

^a Hanyang University   (South Korea)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^c Pusan National University   (South Korea)

^d University of Seoul   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANTILEVER BEAMS; FABRY-PEROT INTERFEROMETERS; FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS; REFLECTION; RING LASERS; WAVELENGTH;

FREE SPECTRAL RANGE (FSR); MULTICHANNEL FILTERS; WAVELENGTH SHIFT;

OPTICAL FILTERS;

EID: 33947411202     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.002921     Document Type: Article

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