Tolerance stackup effects in free-space optical interconnects

Applied Optics

Volumn 40, Issue 29, 2001, Pages 5240-5247

  Lacroix, Frédéric ^a   Kirk, Andrew G ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERROR ANALYSIS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; PROBABILITY;

ROOT-SUM-SQUARE (RSS) ANALYSIS;

OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS;

EID: 0010674807     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.40.005240     Document Type: Article

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