Performance scaling comparison for free-space optical and electrical interconnection approaches

Applied Optics

Volumn 37, Issue 14, 1998, Pages 2886-2894

  Haney, Michael W ^a   Christensen, Marc P ^a  

^a George Mason University   (United States)

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EID: 0000713479     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.37.002886     Document Type: Article

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