Analysis of a microchannel interconnect based on the clustering of smart-pixel-device windows

Applied Optics

Volumn 35, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 1220-1233

  Rolston, D R ^a   Robertson, B ^a   Hinton, H S ^a,b   Plant, D V ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UCB 450   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFRACTION; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS; INTEGRATED CIRCUIT LAYOUT; LENSES; LSI CIRCUITS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES;

CLUSTERED WINDOW GEOMETRY; GAUSSIAN BEAM PROPAGATION MODEL; PHOTONIC BACKPLANE; SELF ELECTROOPTIC EFFECT DEVICES; SMART PIXEL DEVICE WINDOWS; TELECENTRIC MICROCHANNEL RELAY SYSTEM;

OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS;

EID: 0030100467     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.35.001220     Document Type: Article

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