High-speed two-dimensional laser scanner based on bragg gratings stored in photothermorefractive glass

Applied Optics

Volumn 42, Issue 26, 2003, Pages 5251-5262

  Yaqoob, Zahid ^a   Arain, Muzammil A ^a   Riza, Nabeel A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS; GLASS; THROUGHPUT;

OPTICAL SCANNERS;

PHOTOREFRACTIVE MATERIALS;

EID: 0141535022     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.42.005251     Document Type: Article

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