Flat top liquid crystal tunable filter using coupled Fabry-Perot cavities

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 231-236

  Alboon, Shadi A ^a   Lindquist, Robert G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA IN HUNTSVILLE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAND STRUCTURE; CHANNEL CAPACITY; FABRY-PEROT INTERFEROMETERS; LASER TUNING; LIQUID CRYSTALS;

FABRY-PEROT CAVITIES; SINGLE CHANNEL FILTERS; TUNABLE MEDIUM; TUNING RANGE;

OPTICAL FILTERS;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTICS; FILTRATION; INSTRUMENTATION; INTERFEROMETRY; LIQUID CRYSTAL; METHODOLOGY;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FIBER OPTICS; FILTRATION; INTERFEROMETRY; LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 38049176797     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.000231     Document Type: Article

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