Multimode interference devices with input-output ports on the sides

Applied Optics

Volumn 45, Issue 20, 2006, Pages 4933-4940

  Mackie, David M ^a  

^a U S ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT INTERFERENCE; LIGHT POLARIZATION; MULTIMODE FIBERS; OPTICAL SYSTEMS;

INPUT-OUTPUT PORTS; MULTIMODE INTERFERENCE DEVICES; WAVELENGTHS;

OPTICAL DEVICES;

EID: 33749865590     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.45.004933     Document Type: Article

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