Two-Dimensional Tunable and Temperature-Insensitive Lyot Filter for FM-to-AM Compensation

Mengqiu FAN; Xiaocheng TIAN; Dandan ZHOU; Jiatian WEI; Handing XIA; Hongwei LV; Hao ZHAO; Dangpeng XU; Wanguo ZHENG

doi:10.1007/s13320-020-0591-4

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