Heat-resistant flexible-film optical waveguides from fluorinated polyimides

Applied Optics

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 966-971

  Matsuura, Tohru ^a,b,d   Kobayashi, Junya ^a,c   Ando, Shinji ^a,b,e   Maruno, Tohru ^a,c   Sasaki, Shigekuni ^a,b   Yamamoto, Fumio ^a,b,d  

^a NTT CORPORATION   (Japan)

^b Science and Core Technology Laboratory Group   (Japan)

^c Tokyo Institute of Technology   (Japan)

^d Advanced Technology Corporation   (Japan)

^e TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

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EID: 0000374839     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.38.000966     Document Type: Article

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