Continuously tunable compact lasers based on thermo-optic polymer waveguides with Bragg gratings

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 22, 2008, Pages 18194-18195

  Noh, Young Ouk ^a   Lee, Hyung Jong ^a   Ju, Ng Jin ^b   Kim, Min Su ^b   Oh, Su Hwan ^b   Oh, Min Cheol ^a,c  

^a ChemOptics Inc   (South Korea)

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

^c Pusan National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COST EFFECTIVENESS; LASER OPTICS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; POLYMERS; WAVEGUIDE COMPONENTS; WAVEGUIDES;

OPERATING TEMPERATURE RANGES; POLYMER WAVEGUIDES; THERMO-OPTIC POLYMER; THERMOOPTIC EFFECTS; THERMOOPTIC TUNING; TUNABLE WAVELENGTH; WAVELENGTH SPACING; WAVELENGTH STABILITY;

TUNING;

EID: 55349141800     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.018194     Document Type: Article

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