Modal noise investigation in multimode polymer waveguides

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6781, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Beals IV, Joseph ^a   Bamiedakis, Nikos ^a   Penty, Richard V ^a   White, Ian H ^a   DeGroot Jr , Jon V ^b   Clapp, Terry V ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b DOW CORNING CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Modal noise; Optical interconnects; Polymer waveguides; Restricted launch; Speckle pattern

Indexed keywords

LIGHT TRANSMISSION; OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS; OPTICAL LINKS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

MODAL NOISE; POLYMER WAVEGUIDES; RESTRICTED LAUNCH; SPECKLE PATTERNS;

WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 42549106560     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.744806     Document Type: Conference Paper

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