Analysis of optical channel cross talk for free-space optical interconnects in the presence of higher-order transverse modes

Applied Optics

Volumn 44, Issue 30, 2005, Pages 6380-6387

  Tsai, Feng Chuan F ^a   O'Brien, Christopher J ^a   Petrović, Novak S ^a   Rakić, Aleksandar D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEGRADATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIFFRACTION; LASERS; LIGHT SOURCES; MICROLENSES; SURFACE PHENOMENA;

LASER SOURCES; MODAL COMPOSITION; STRAY-LIGHT; SURFACE-EMITTING LASERS;

OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS;

EID: 27944477346     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.44.006380     Document Type: Article

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