Coherent beam combining of large number of PM fibres in 2-D fibre array

Electronics Letters

Volumn 42, Issue 18, 2006, Pages 1024-1025

  Yu, C X ^a   Kansky, J E ^a   Shaw, S E J ^a   Murphy, D V ^a   Higgs, C ^a  

^a MIT LINCOLN LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA PHASED ARRAYS; COHERENT LIGHT; ERROR ANALYSIS;

BEAMFORMER; PHASE ERRORS; PHASED ARRAY CONFIGURATION; STREHL RATIO;

OPTICAL FIBERS;

EID: 33748093114     PISSN: 00135194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/el:20061938     Document Type: Article

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