Optically heterodyned 25-GHz true-time-delay lines on thick LD-3 polymer-based planar waveguides

Applied Optics

Volumn 36, Issue 18, 1997, Pages 4269-4272

  Li, Richard L Q ^a   Tang, Huajun ^a   Cao, Guohua ^a   Chen, Ray T ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

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EID: 0010296211     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.36.004269     Document Type: Article

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