Microoptical phased arrays for spatial and spectral switching

IEEE Communications Magazine

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 96-102

  Solgaard, Olav ^a   Lee, Daesung ^a   Yu, Kyoungsik ^a   Krishnamoorthy, Uma ^b   Li, Kebin ^b   Heritage, Jonathan P ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DENSE WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIFFRACTION; INTERFEROMETERS; LASER BEAMS; MICROELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; MIRRORS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; PHASE MODULATION;

GIRES-TOURNOIS INTERFEROMETER; MICROMIRRORS; MICROOPTICAL PHASED ARRAYS;

DIFFRACTIVE OPTICS;

EID: 0037355618     PISSN: 01636804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MCOM.2003.1186551     Document Type: Article

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