Free-space wavelength-multiplexed optical scanner

Applied Optics

Volumn 40, Issue 35, 2001, Pages 6425-6438

  Yaqoob, Zahid ^a   Rizvi, Azhar A ^a,b   Riza, Nabeel A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b QUAID I AZAM UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; LASER BEAMS; OPTICAL FILTERS; SCANNING;

OPTICAL SCANNERS;

OPTICAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 0013290337     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.40.006425     Document Type: Article

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