Design of flat-top interleaver and tunable dispersion compensator using cascaded Sagnac loop mirrors and ring resonators

Applied Optics

Volumn 48, Issue 32, 2009, Pages 6213-6222

  Zhang, Yu ^a   Huang, Wencai ^a   Wang, Xiulin ^b   Xu, Huiying ^a   Cai, Zhiping ^a  

^a XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b JIMEI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISPERSIONS; ETALONS; MIRRORS; RESONATORS;

FABRICATION TOLERANCES; FOCAL POINTS; GIRES-TOURNOIS ETALONS; MICHELSON-GIRES-TOURNOIS INTERFEROMETERS; MULTI-CAVITY; RING RESONATOR; SAGNAC LOOP MIRROR; TUNABLE DISPERSION COMPENSATOR;

OPTICAL RESONATORS;

EID: 73349109451     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.48.006213     Document Type: Article

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