Real-time precision refractometry: New approaches

Applied Optics

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1223-1234

  Eickhoff, Mark L ^a,b   Hall, J L ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Ophir Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

Grating coupler; Holographic Bragg grating; Waveguide coupler

Indexed keywords

EID: 0013015128     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.36.001223     Document Type: Article

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