All-fiber connectorized compact fiber optic delay-line modules using three-dimensional polarization optics

Optical Engineering

Volumn 39, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 2338-2344

  Madamopoulos, Nicholas ^a   Riza, Nabeel A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA PHASED ARRAYS; FERROELECTRIC MATERIALS; GRADIENT INDEX OPTICS; INSERTION LOSSES; INTEGRATED OPTOELECTRONICS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; OPTICAL COLLIMATORS; OPTICAL DESIGN; OPTICAL INSTRUMENT LENSES; OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS; OPTICAL SWITCHES;

FIBER OPTIC DELAY LINE; OPTICAL MICROBENCH; PHOTONIC DELAY LINE;

FIBER OPTIC NETWORKS;

EID: 0034264775     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.1287449     Document Type: Article

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