A cascadable approach to produce widely selectable spectral spacing in birefringent comb filters

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 18, Issue 18, 2006, Pages 1937-1939

  Fok, Mable P ^a   Shu, Chester ^a   Tang, Wing Wa ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Comb filters; Interference; Polarization maintaining fiber (PMF)

Indexed keywords

COMB FILTER; EQUIVALENT PROPAGATION DISTANCE; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; FIBER SEGMENTS; POLARIZATION-MAINTAINING FIBERS;

BIREFRINGENCE; DATA FLOW ANALYSIS; ELECTRIC FILTERS; FIBERS; POLARIZATION;

LIGHT POLARIZATION;

EID: 54949110103     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2006.882222     Document Type: Article

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