Bandwidth and wavelength-tunable optical bandpass filter based on silicon microring-MZI structure

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 6462-6470

  Ding, Yunhong ^a,b   Pu, Minhao ^b   Liu, Liu ^b   Xu, Jing ^b   Peucheret, Christophe ^b   Zhang, Xinliang ^a   Huang, Dexiu ^a   Ou, Haiyan ^b  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; OPTICAL RESONATORS;

EXTINCTION RATIOS; FILTER DESIGNS; IN-BAND; MICRORING RESONATOR; MICRORINGS; OPTICAL BANDPASS FILTERS; PHASE DIFFERENCE; RIPPLE CONTROL; SHAPE FACTOR; SILICON MICRORINGS; TUNABILITIES; WAVELENGTH TUNABILITY; WAVELENGTH TUNABLE;

BANDPASS FILTERS;

SILICON;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FILTRATION; INSTRUMENTATION; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; REFRACTOMETRY;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FILTRATION; MINIATURIZATION; OPTICAL DEVICES; REFRACTOMETRY; SILICON;

EID: 79953213374     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.006462     Document Type: Article

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