Integrated InP-InGaAsP tunable coupled ring optical bandpass filters with zero insertion loss

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 7816-7826

  Guzzon, Robert S ^a   Norberg, Erik J ^a   Parker, John S ^a   Johansson, Leif A ^a   Coldren, Larry A ^a  

^a Santa Barbara   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDPASS AMPLIFIERS; BANDPASS FILTERS; INTEGRATION; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; MICROWAVE FILTERS; MONOLITHIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; PHASE MODULATION;

BANDWIDTH TUNABILITY; CENTER FREQUENCY; COUPLED RESONATOR FILTERS; CURRENT INJECTIONS; FREE SPECTRAL RANGE; INGAASP; INP; MATERIAL SYSTEMS; MONOLITHICALLY INTEGRATED; OPTICAL BANDPASS FILTERS; PASS BANDS; PHASE MODULATOR; STOPBAND; TELECOM; TELECOM WAVELENGTHS; THIRD-ORDER; TUNABILITIES;

ACTIVE FILTERS;

EID: 79953841406     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.007816     Document Type: Article

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