Reconfigurable add-drop multiplexer for spatial modes

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 17, 2013, Pages 20220-20229

  Miller, David A B ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL CONSTANTS;

ADD DROP MULTIPLEXERS; LOCAL FEEDBACK LOOPS; MODE EXTRACTION; ORTHOGONAL MODES; RECONFIGURABLE; RECONFIGURABLE OPTICAL ADD-DROP MULTIPLEXER; SELF-ALIGNING; SPLITTING LOSS;

OPTICS;

EID: 84883214984     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.020220     Document Type: Article

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