Wideband tunable Gaussian-shaped spectral filters based on dispersion engineering

Abstract

Optical liquids can be used to engineer the dispersion characteristics of fibers by serving as the core or cladding to attain fundamental-mode cutoff effect. The short-/long-pass fiber filters are so made and concatenated to achieve widely thermo-optic tunable Gaussian-shaped spectral filters. The proposed wideband tunable Gaussian-shaped spectral filter provides a potential technique in application to high resolution bio-imaging. (C) 2009 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.