Design of an optical interconnect for photonic backplane applications

Applied Optics

Volumn 37, Issue 14, 1998, Pages 2974-2984

  Robertson, Brian ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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EID: 0000015172     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.37.002974     Document Type: Article

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