A novel free-space retrocommunication link

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5614, Issue , 2004, Pages 10-23

  Sjöqvist, Lars ^a   Hällstig, Emil ^a   Öhgren, Johan ^a   Allard, Lars ^a   Ågren, Daniel ^b   Junique, Stephane ^b   Wang, Qin ^b   Noharet, Bertrand ^b   Engström, David ^c   Hård, Sverker ^c  

^a SWEDISH DEFENCE RESEARCH AGENCY   (Sweden)

^b ACREO AB   (Sweden)

^c CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Beam steering; Liquid crystal; Modulator; MQW; Retrocommunication; SLM

Indexed keywords

DATA TRANSFER; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LIGHT MODULATORS; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; OPTIMIZATION; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM ARSENIDE; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS;

BEAM STEERING; MULTIPLE QUANTUM WELL (MQW); RETROCOMMUNICATION; SLM;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 20244381535     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.578267     Document Type: Conference Paper

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