Optical design of a 1024-channel free-space sorting demonstrator

Applied Optics

Volumn 36, Issue 35, 1997, Pages 9243-9252

  Neilson, David T ^a,b   Prince, Simon M ^a,c   Baillie, Douglas A ^a,d   Tooley, Frank A P ^a  

^a HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NEC LABORATORIES AMERICA   (United States)

^c GEC Marconi Avionics   (United Kingdom)

^d Wavefront Optics   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; LASER BEAMS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; MIRRORS; MOS DEVICES; OPTICAL DESIGN; OPTICAL INSTRUMENT LENSES; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; SORTING;

OPTICAL SORTER; OPTOMECHANICS; POLARIZING ELEMENTS;

OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS;

EID: 0031351725     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.36.009243     Document Type: Article

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