442. D. A. B. Miller, "Designing Arbitrary Linear Optical Components Without Calculations," in Advanced Photonics for Communications, OSA Technical Digest (online) (Optical Society of America, 2014), paper JM4B.1.
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/abstract.cfm?URI=IPRSN-2014-JM4B.1
We show any linear optical function on a coherent light beam, such as arbitrary spatial mode coupling and conversion, can be progressively and adaptively designed in a feedback-controlled dynamically self-configuring and self-stabilizing integrated optics approach.
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