Fabrication of ridge waveguides: A new solgel route

Applied Optics

Volumn 37, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 2429-2434

  Fardad, Amir ^a,b   Andrews, Mark ^a   Milova, Galina ^a   Malek Tabrizi, Ali ^c   Najafi, Iraj ^c  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

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EID: 0000832718     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.37.002429     Document Type: Article

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