High-efficiency electro-optic grating switch with improved performance

Applied Optics

Volumn 35, Issue 35, 1996, Pages 7031-7036

  Song, Qi Wang ^a   Wang, Xu Ming ^a   Bussjager, Rebecca ^b  

^a Syracuse University   (United States)

^b AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Electro optic grating; Lead lanthanum zirconate titanate ceramic; Micro optics; Opticalshutter light switch

Indexed keywords

EID: 0009087242     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.35.007031     Document Type: Article

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