Design and characterization of a microchannel optical interconnect for optical backplanes

Applied Optics

Volumn 36, Issue 14, 1997, Pages 3127-3141

  Liu, Yongsheng ^a   Robertson, Brian ^a   Plant, David V ^a   Hinton, H Scott ^b   Robertson, William M ^c  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UCB 450   (United States)

^c Middle Tennessee University   (United States)

Author keywords

Image mapping; Microchannel free space optical interconnects; Optical backplane; Optical design; Optical system characterization; Optical window clustering

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000344814     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.36.003127     Document Type: Article

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