Adaptive beam steering implemented in a ferroelectric liquid-crystal spatial-light-modulator free-space, fiber-optic switch

Applied Optics

Volumn 41, Issue 23, 2002, Pages 4904-4911

  Johansson, Mathias ^a   Hård, Sverker ^a   Robertson, Brian ^b   Manolis, Ilias ^c   Wilkinson, Timothy ^c   Crossland, William ^c  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b THOMAS SWAN AND CO LTD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FEEDBACK CONTROL; FERROELECTRIC DEVICES; LIQUID CRYSTALS; OPTICAL SWITCHES; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON; SINGLE MODE FIBERS;

ADAPTIVE BEAM STEERING; FIBER-OPTIC SWITCHES;

LIGHT MODULATORS;

EID: 0037055659     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.41.004904     Document Type: Article

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