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When a grating-waveguide structure is illuminated with an incident light beam at a specific wavelength and angular orientation, a resonant phenomenon occurs. The resonance spectral bandwidth can be very narrow, so the structure can serve either as a spectral filter or an optical modulator. The basic principles, analytic and numerical models, design and fabrication procedures, and calculated and experimental results are presented. The results reveal that passive resonant structures can have spectral bandwidths as low as 0.085 nm, and active structures can be modulated at 10 MHz.
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Friesem, A.A. et al. (2000). Resonant Structures for Optical Processing and Communication. In: Marom, E., Vainos, N.A., Friesem, A.A., Goodman, J.W., Rosenfeld, E. (eds) Unconventional Optical Elements for Information Storage, Processing and Communications. NATO Science Series, vol 75. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4096-6_23
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