title: Tailored Gires-Tournois etalons as tunable dispersion slope compensators.
abstract: We present a novel concept of a tailored Gires-Tournois etalon structure and show that such a device is useful for the fabrication of a dispersion-slope compensator with an almost arbitrary dispersion profile and also with tunability in the dispersion slope.
authors.affiliation: Photonics Research Group, Aston University, Aston Triangle, Birmingham B4 7ET, UK. x.shu@aston.ac.uk
authors.forename: Xuewen
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Shu
authors.forename: Ian
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Bennion
authors.forename: John
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Mitchell
authors.forename: Kate
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Sugden