Microwave photonic notch filter based on a dual-Sagnac-loop structure

Applied Optics

Volumn 49, Issue 33, 2010, Pages 6546-6551

  Wang, Xudong ^a   Chan, Erwin H W ^a   Minasian, Robert A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDPASS FILTERS; MICROWAVE FILTERS;

FREE SPECTRAL RANGE; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; MICROWAVE PHOTONICS; PASS BANDS; SAGNAC LOOP; SINGLE WAVELENGTH; STOPBAND ATTENUATION;

NOTCH FILTERS;

EID: 78649543487     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.49.006546     Document Type: Article

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