Active optical interconnect based on liquid-crystal grating

Applied Optics

Volumn 42, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 1520-1525

  Fujieda, Ichiro ^a,b   Mikami, Osamu ^c   Ozawa, Atsushi ^c  

^a NEC CORPORATION   (Japan)

^b Technol Res Adv Display Mat   (Japan)

^c TOKAI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIQUID CRYSTALS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

LIQUID-CRYSTAL GRATINGS;

OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS;

EID: 0042093538     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.42.001520     Document Type: Article

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