Structure with improved self-imaging in its graded-index multimode interference region

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 1301-1303

  Yin, Rui ^a   Jiang, Xiaoqing ^a   Yang, Jianyi ^a   Wang, Minghua ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERROR ANALYSIS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; LIGHT INTERFERENCE; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

MULTIMODE INTERFERENCE;

FIBER OPTIC NETWORKS;

EID: 0141453240     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.19.001301     Document Type: Article

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