Volume holographic grating-based continuously tunable optical filter

Optical Engineering

Volumn 43, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 2017-2021

  Havermeyer, Frank ^a   Liu, Wenhai ^a   Moser, Christophe ^a   Psaltis, Demetri ^b   Steckman, Gregory J ^a  

^a Ondax Inc   (United States)

^b California Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; FIBER LASERS; HOLOGRAPHIC OPTICAL ELEMENTS; LASER TUNING; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL FILTERS; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

ERBIUM DOPED FIBER AMPLIFIER; TUNABLE OPTICAL FILTER; VOLUME HOLOGRAPHIC GRATING;

HOLOGRAPHY;

EID: 7544219851     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.1773775     Document Type: Article

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