Micron-sized imaging system based on multimode waveguides

Optical Review

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 29-32

  Wang, Haifeng ^b   Groen, F H ^a   Pereira, S F ^a   Braat, J J M ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b DATA STORAGE INSTITUTE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Imaging systems; Integrated optics; Microscopy; Optical data storage

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846781172     PISSN: 13406000     EISSN: 13499432     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10043-007-0029-x     Document Type: Article

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