Coherent beam transformations using multimode waveguides

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 7506-7520

  Zhu, X ^a   Schulzgen A ^a   Li, H ^a   Wei, H ^a   Moloney, J V ^a   Peyghambarian, N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MULTIMODE FIBERS; WAVEGUIDE COMPONENTS; WAVEGUIDE COUPLERS; WAVEGUIDES;

BEAM SHAPING TECHNIQUE; BEAM TRANSFORMATION; BESSEL-LIKE BEAMS; COHERENT BEAMS; FRAUNHOFER DIFFRACTION; MULTI-MODE INTERFERENCE; MULTI-MODE WAVEGUIDES; SIGNAL WAVELENGTH;

GAUSSIAN BEAMS;

GLASS FIBER;

AMPLIFIER; ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTICS; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; OPTICS; REFRACTOMETRY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

AMPLIFIERS, ELECTRONIC; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; LASERS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; OPTICAL DEVICES; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; REFRACTOMETRY;

EID: 77950246789     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.007506     Document Type: Article

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