Design, implementation, and characterization of a hybrid optical interconnect for a four-stage free-space optical backplane demonstrator

Applied Optics

Volumn 37, Issue 14, 1998, Pages 2895-2914

  Liu, Yongsheng ^a,b   Robertson, Brian ^a   Boisset, Guillaume C ^a   Ayliffe, Michael H ^a   Iyer, Rajiv ^a   Plant, David V ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Quinta Corporation   (United States)

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EID: 0000401484     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.37.002895     Document Type: Article

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