Electro-optic modulator capable of generating simultaneous amplitude and phase modulations

Applied Optics

Volumn 43, Issue 26, 2004, Pages 5079-5091

  Cusack, Benedict J ^a   Sheard, Benjamin S ^a   Shaddock, Daniel A ^a,b   Gray, Malcolm B ^a   Lam, Ping Koy ^a   Whitcomb, Stan E ^c  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); LIGHT POLARIZATION; OPTICAL DESIGN; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PHASE MODULATION; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; TUNING;

ELECTRO-OPTIC MODULATORS; OPTICAL CONFIGURATIONS; PHASE THEORY; QUADRATURE VARIABLE MODULATORS (QVM);

LIGHT MODULATORS;

EID: 4944229775     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.43.005079     Document Type: Article

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