Second-order all-fiber comb filter based on polarization-diversity loop configuration

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 3871-3876

  Lee, Yong Wook ^a   Kim, Hyun Tak ^b   Lee, Yong Wan ^c  

^a Pukyong National University   (South Korea)

^b Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI)   (South Korea)

^c University of Minnesota   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; LIGHT POLARIZATION; OPTICAL BEAM SPLITTERS; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL FILTERS;

FILTER PASSBAND; LOOP CONFIGURATION; POLARIZATION BEAM SPLITTERS; POLARIZATION MAINTAINING FIBERS;

FIBER OPTICS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTICS; INSTRUMENTATION; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; REFRACTOMETRY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMMUNICATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FIBER OPTICS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REFRACTOMETRY;

EID: 41149174884     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.003871     Document Type: Article

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