Design, fabrication, and performance of preferential-order volume grating waveguide couplers

Applied Optics

Volumn 39, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 1223-1232

  Schultz, Stephen M ^a   Glytsis, Elias N ^a   Gaylord, Thomas K ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; HOLOGRAPHY; LIGHT INTERFERENCE; POLYIMIDES;

VOLUME GRATING COUPLERS;

WAVEGUIDE COUPLERS;

EID: 0005503147     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.39.001223     Document Type: Article

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