Discretely tunable optical delay lines using serial and step-chirped sidewall Bragg gratings in SOI

Electronics Letters

Volumn 49, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 608-610

  Spasojevic, M ^a   Chen, L R ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISCRETELY TUNABLE; SIDEWALL BRAGG GRATINGS;

BRAGG GRATINGS; OPTICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING;

WAVES;

EID: 84879386200     PISSN: 00135194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/el.2013.0840     Document Type: Article

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