Successive asymmetric abrupt tapers for tunable narrowband fiber comb filters

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 23, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 438-440

  Feng, Zhi Zheng ^a   Hsieh, Yu Hsin ^a   Chen, Nan Kuang ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNITED UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Abrupt taper; comb filter; core cladding mode interference; wavelength tuning

Indexed keywords

ABRUPT TAPER; CO-DOPED; COMB FILTER; CORE-CLADDING MODE INTERFERENCE; EXTINCTION RATIOS; FIBER COMB FILTERS; FIBER TAPER; HEATING TEMPERATURES; NARROW BANDS; STANDARD SINGLE MODE FIBERS; WAVELENGTH TUNABLE; WAVELENGTH TUNING;

FIBERS; SINGLE MODE FIBERS;

ELECTRIC FILTERS;

EID: 79952910476     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2011.2107573     Document Type: Article

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