title: Low-order adaptive optics for free-space optoelectronic interconnects.
abstract: The concept of adaptive optics for improving the cost-performance of free-space optoelectronic interconnects is discussed. Adaptive optics as a design option for optical interconnect systems is presented and discussed. A practical demonstrator that performs low-order correction was built and tested. Slowly varying misalignments, including thermal effects, were compensated for in a 622-Mbit/s free-space optical data link.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh EH141 4AS, UK. j.gourlay@hw.ac.uk
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Gourlay
authors.forename: T Y
authors.initials: TY
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ishikawa
authors.forename: A C
authors.initials: AC
authors.lastname: Walker