Highly angle tolerant filter incorporating serially cascaded a-Si based etalons and its application to a compact receiver

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1301-1309

  Noh, Tae Hui ^a   Yoon, Yeo Taek ^a   Lee, Hong Shik ^a   Lee, Sang Shin ^a   Choi, Duk Yong ^b  

^a Kwangwoon University   (South Korea)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC FILMS; DIODES; ETALONS; SILICA; SILICON; SUBSTRATES;

A-SI FILMS; ANGULAR ACCEPTANCE; CENTER WAVELENGTH; COLLIMATED LIGHT; FREE SPECTRAL RANGE; HIGH-INDEX; INFRARED RECEIVERS; NORMAL INCIDENCE; PASS BANDS; ROLL-OFF CHARACTERISTICS; SILICA GLASS SUBSTRATE; SIO2 FILM; SPECTRAL FILTERS; TRANSMISSION EFFICIENCY; WAVELENGTH SHIFT;

BANDWIDTH;

EID: 84872696738     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.001301     Document Type: Article

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