Realization and optimization of planar refracting microlenses by Ag-Na ion-exchange techniques

Applied Optics

Volumn 35, Issue 25, 1996, Pages 5102-5107

  Bähr, Jochen ^a   Brenner, Karl Heinz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Gradient index; Ion exchange; Planar microlenses

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000675607     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.35.005102     Document Type: Article

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