Reduced alignment accuracy requirement using focused Gaussian beams for free-space optical interconnection

Optical Engineering

Volumn 35, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 2240-2249

  Sasaki, Hironori ^a   Shinozaki, Keisuke ^a   Kamijoh, Takeshi ^a  

^a OKI ELECTRIC INDUSTRY CO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Optical communications; Optical computing; Optical interconnects

Indexed keywords

EID: 0004857759     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.600799     Document Type: Article

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