Self-configuring universal linear optical component [Invited]

Photonics Research

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-15

  Miller, David A B ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Active or adaptive optics; Integrated optics devices; Systems

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SYSTEMS; FEEDBACK; GLOBAL OPTIMIZATION; INTEGRATED OPTICS; MAPPING; ORTHOGONAL FUNCTIONS; QUANTUM THEORY;

COMPONENT PROPERTIES; DESIGN CALCULATIONS; INTEGRATED OPTICS DEVICES; LOCAL FEEDBACK LOOPS; MULTI-PARAMETER OPTIMIZATIONS; PLANAR INTEGRATED OPTICS; POLARIZATION CONTROL; QUANTUM-MECHANICAL SUPERPOSITION;

ADAPTIVE OPTICS;

EID: 84883227515     PISSN: 23279125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/PRJ.1.000001     Document Type: Article

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