Tunable bandwidth optical filter based on MEMS Gires-Tournois interferometer

2003 IEEE/LEOS International Conference on Optical MEMS

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 32-33

  Yu, Kyoungsik ^a   Lee, Daesung ^a   Krishnamoorthy, U ^a   Solgaard, O ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Band pass filters; Bandwidth; Channel spacing; Circuit optimization; Micromechanical devices; Optical filters; Optical interferometry; Optical tuning; Tunable circuits and devices; Wavelength division multiplexing

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; DENSE WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; MOEMS; OPTICAL FILTERS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; TUNING; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

CHANNEL SPACINGS; CIRCUIT OPTIMIZATION; MICROMECHANICAL DEVICE; OPTICAL INTERFEROMETRY; OPTICAL TUNING; TUNABLE CIRCUITS AND DEVICES;

BANDPASS FILTERS;

EID: 4344631736     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/OMEMS.2003.1233454     Document Type: Conference Paper

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