Influence of fiber manufacturing tolerances on the spectral response of a bend loss based all-fiber edge filter

Applied Optics

Volumn 47, Issue 16, 2008, Pages 2921-2925

  Wang, Pengfei ^a   Farrell, Gerald ^a   Semenova, Yuliya ^a   Rajan, Ginu ^a  

^a DUBLIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDPASS FILTERS; MANUFACTURE;

FIBER BEND LOSS; FIBER PARAMETERS; MANUFACTURING TOLERANCES; MANUFACTURING VARIATION; NUMERICAL APERTURE; SPECTRAL PARAMETERS; SPECTRAL RESPONSE; THEORETICAL MODELING;

FIBERS;

EID: 49649110137     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.47.002921     Document Type: Article

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