UV-light imprinted surface, ridge, and buried sol-gel glass waveguides and devices on silicon

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 2954, Issue , 1996, Pages 100-104

  Najafi, S Iraj ^a   Andrews, Mark P ^b   Fardad, M A ^b   Milova, Galina ^b   Tahar, Touam ^a   Coudray, Paul ^a  

^a ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLOIDS; ELECTRIC LOSSES; GELATION; GELS; GLASS; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; INTEGRATED OPTICS; LIGHT SOURCES; LIGHTING; LUMINESCENCE OF INORGANIC SOLIDS; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; OPTICAL MATERIALS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PHOTONICS; SOL-GEL PROCESS; SOL-GELS; SOLS; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; WAVEGUIDES;

INTEGRATED OPTICAL DEVICES; LOW PROPAGATION LOSSES; NEW PROCESSES; POWER SPLITTERS; ULTRAVIOLET LIGHT SOURCES; UV LIGHTS; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXERS;

LIGHT;

EID: 0012149812     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.262432     Document Type: Conference Paper

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