Experimental and numerical analyses of misalignment tolerances in free-space optical interconnects

Applied Optics

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 704-713

  Lacroix, Frédéic ^a   Châteauneuf, Marc ^a   Xue, Xin ^a   Kirk, Andrew G ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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EID: 0000364499     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.39.000704     Document Type: Article

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