Title :
Giant Tuning Characteristics of Tapered Tunable Hollow Waveguide Bragg Reflector
Author :
Takeishi, Tomofumi ; Koyama, Fumio
Author_Institution :
Tokyo Inst. of Technol., Yokohama
Abstract :
We demonstrate a giant tuning characteristic of a tapered hollow waveguide Bragg reflector, exhibiting a tuning range of over 180 nm. The tapered hollow waveguide improves the coupling loss with a narrow air core of a few microns.
Keywords :
Bragg gratings; optical waveguides; coupling loss; giant tuning characteristics; tapered tunable hollow waveguide Bragg reflector; Distributed Bragg reflectors; Gratings; Hollow waveguides; Laser tuning; Optical devices; Optical reflection; Optical tuning; Optical waveguides; Slabs; Tunable circuits and devices;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2007. LEOS 2007. The 20th Annual Meeting of the IEEE
Conference_Location :
Lake Buena Vista, FL
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-0925-9
Electronic_ISBN :
1092-8081
DOI :
10.1109/LEOS.2007.4382634
