Photobleaching of polydiacetylene waveguides: A characterization of the process and patterning of optical elements

Applied Optics

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1204-1212

  Palchetti, Luca ^a   Li, Qu ^b   Giorgetti, Emilia ^a   Grando, Daniela ^c   Sottini, Stefano ^a  

^a IFAC CNR   (Italy)

^b SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c POLITECNICO DI BARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Integrated optics; Nonlinear optics; Photobleaching; Polymer waveguides

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000630320     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.36.001204     Document Type: Article

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