All linear optical devices are mode converters

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 21, 2012, Pages 23985-23993

  Miller, David A B ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL DEVICES;

ALIGNMENT TOLERANCE; BASIS SETS; GENERAL EXPRESSION; INPUT AND OUTPUTS; INPUT MODES; LINEAR OPTICAL; LINEAR OPTICAL DEVICES; MODE CONVERTER; ORTHOGONAL MODES;

ORTHOGONAL FUNCTIONS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; LIGHT; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; RADIATION SCATTERING; STATISTICAL MODEL; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LIGHT; LINEAR MODELS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OPTICAL DEVICES; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 84867313496     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.023985     Document Type: Article

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