Design of an integrated optical magic T for astronomy applications

Applied Optics

Volumn 39, Issue 36, 2000, Pages 6781-6786

  El Sabban, Salwa ^a   Khalil, Diaa ^b   Schanen, Isabelle ^a   Benech, Pierre ^a  

^a Grenoble INP Phelma   (France)

^b The British University in Egypt   (Egypt)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; BANDWIDTH; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CROSSTALK; MICROWAVES;

MULTIMODE WAVEGUIDES;

INTEGRATED OPTICS;

EID: 0347113444     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.39.006781     Document Type: Article

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