Optical proximity communication using reflective mirrors

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 19, 2008, Pages 15052-15058

  Zheng, Xuezhe ^a   Cunningham, John E ^a   Shubin, Ivan ^a   Simons, John ^a   Asghari, Mehdi ^b   Feng, Dazeng ^b   Lei, Hongbin ^b   Zheng, Dawei ^b   Liang, Hong ^b   Kung, Cheng Chih ^b   Luff, Jonathan ^b   Sze, Theresa ^a   Cohen, Danny ^a   Krishnamoorthy, Ashok V ^a  

^a SUN MICROSYSTEMS   (United States)

^b KOTURA INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT TRANSMISSION; MIRRORS; OPTICAL LINKS; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

COUPLING LOSS; HIGH BANDWIDTH; HIGH-SPEED OPTICAL TRANSMISSIONS; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; PROXIMITY COMMUNICATION; REFLECTING MIRRORS; REFLECTIVE MIRRORS; SIGNAL INTEGRITY;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

SILICON;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; PHOTOMETRY; TELECOMMUNICATION; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LENSES; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHOTOMETRY; SILICON; TELECOMMUNICATIONS;

EID: 51849124672     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.015052     Document Type: Article

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