Self-aligning universal beam coupler

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 6360-6370

  Miller, David A B ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL CONSTANTS;

BEAM COUPLERS; COMPLEX MODES; FEED-BACK LOOP; GRATING COUPLERS; INTEGRATED MONITORING; MOVING SOURCE; SELF-ALIGNING; SPLITTING LOSS;

OPTICS;

EID: 84875130564     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.006360     Document Type: Article

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