Wavelength switchable flat-top all-fiber comb filter based on a double-loop Mach-Zehnder interferometer

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 6056-6063

  Luo, Ai Ping ^a   Luo, Zhi Chao ^a   Xu, Wen Cheng ^a   Cui, Hu ^a  

^a SOUTH CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FILTERS; FIBER LASERS; MACH-ZEHNDER INTERFEROMETERS; POLARIZATION;

ALL FIBER; CHANNEL SPACINGS; COMB FILTER; DOUBLE-LOOP; FIBER COUPLERS; FLAT-TOP; FLAT-TOP SPECTRAL RESPONSE; INPUT LIGHT; M-Z INTERFEROMETER; MACH-ZEHNDER; PASS BANDS; POLARIZATION CONTROLLERS; POLARIZATION STATE; SWITCHABLE; THEORETICAL PREDICTION;

OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS;

ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTICS; FILTRATION; INSTRUMENTATION; INTERFEROMETRY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TELECOMMUNICATION;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; FILTRATION; INTERFEROMETRY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TELECOMMUNICATIONS;

EID: 77949619330     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.006056     Document Type: Article

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