Optics for modulating multiple beams using an asymmetric multilevel phase grating and a multichannel acousto-optic modulator

Applied Optics

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 853-861

  Kataoka, Keiji ^a   Shibayama, Yasuyuki ^a  

^a Hitachi Koki Co Ltd   (Japan)

Author keywords

Multichannel acousto optic modulator; Multilevel phase grating

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001191592     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.36.000853     Document Type: Article

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