Plastic modules for free-space optical interconnects

Applied Optics

Volumn 37, Issue 14, 1998, Pages 2944-2952

  Neilson, David T ^a   Schenfeld, Eugen ^a  

^a NEC LABORATORIES AMERICA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COST EFFECTIVENESS; ELECTRONICS PACKAGING; FUNCTIONS; LASERS; OPTICAL COATINGS; OPTICAL FIBER COUPLING; OPTICAL LINKS; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; OPTICS; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; PLASTICS APPLICATIONS;

INTERCONNECTION CACHE NETWORK; OPTOMECHANICS; PLASTIC MODULES; ROUTING FUNCTION;

OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS;

EID: 0032073340     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.37.002944     Document Type: Article

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