Dip-coated thin-film polycarbonate optical waveguides

Applied Optics

Volumn 37, Issue 18, 1998, Pages 4051-4053

  Ghawana, Karuna ^a   Singh, Sanjeev ^a   Sharma, Vinod Kumar ^a   Kapoor, Avinashi ^a   Tripathi, Kailash Nath ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

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EID: 0000347358     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.37.004051     Document Type: Article

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