Demonstration of a liquid-crystal adaptive alignment tweeker for high-speed infrared band fiber-fed free-space systems

Optical Engineering

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1876-1880

  Riza, Nabeel A ^a   Yuan, Shifu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive optical interconnect; Fiber optic link; Liquid crystal devices; Programmable wavefront

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038542645     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.601728     Document Type: Article

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