Polymer Waveguide Thermooptic Switch with Low Electric Power Consumption at 1.3 µm

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 7, 1993, Pages 782-784

  Hida, Yasuhiro ^a   Onose, Hidekatsu ^a   Imamura, Saburo ^a  

^a NIT Opto electronics Labs ^*  (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBER OPTICS; INTERFEROMETERS; OPTICAL SWITCHES; POLYMERS; THIN FILM DEVICES;

MACH-ZEHNDER INTERFEROMETERS; POLYMER WAVEGUIDES; THERMOOPTIC SWITCHES; THIN-FILM HEATERS;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 0027626993     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: 19410174     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.229805     Document Type: Article

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