Design and analysis of an adaptive board-to-board dynamic holographic interconnect

Applied Optics

Volumn 43, Issue 16, 2004, Pages 3297-3305

  O'Brien, Dominic C ^a   Faulkner, Grahame E ^a   Wilkinson, Timothy D ^b   Robertson, Brian ^b   Leyva, Diego Gil ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER GENERATED HOLOGRAPHY; FERROELECTRIC MATERIALS; LASERS; LIGHT MODULATORS; LIQUID CRYSTALS; OPTICAL DESIGN; SIGNAL RECEIVERS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS; TRANSMITTERS;

ABERRATION CORRECTION; HOLOGRAPHIC INTERCONNECTS; OPTICAL SURFACES; VERTICAL-CAVITY SURFACE-EMITTING LASERS;

OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS;

EID: 2942539072     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.43.003297     Document Type: Review

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