• DocumentCode
    328531
  • Title

    All-fibre acousto-optic tunable filter based on a null coupler

  • Author

    Culverhouse, D.O. ; Yun, S.H. ; Richardson, D.J. ; Birks, T.A. ; Farwell, S.G. ; Russell, P. St J

  • Author_Institution
    Optoelectron. Res. Centre, Southampton Univ., UK
  • Volume
    3
  • fYear
    1996
  • fDate
    19-19 Sept. 1996
  • Firstpage
    317
  • Abstract
    Tunable acousto-optic spectral filters based on null couplers have been improved by making the coupler more uniform. A new double-pass arrangement further narrows the bandwidth, reduces the sidelobes to -20 dB and doubles the frequency shift.
  • Keywords
    acousto-optical filters; optical communication equipment; optical fibre couplers; optical fibre filters; tuning; wavelength division multiplexing; all-fibre acousto-optic tunable filter; double-pass arrangement; frequency shift; null coupler; sidelobes; tunable acousto-optic spectral filters;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Communication, 1996. ECOC '96. 22nd European Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Oslo, Norway
  • Print_ISBN
    82-423-0418-1
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    715676