Digital optical switch based on 'oversized' polymer rib waveguides

Electronics Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 544-545

  Moosburger, R ^a   Fischbeck, G ^a   Kostrzewa, C ^a   Petermann, K ^a  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Integrated optics; Optical polymers; Optical switches; Rib waveguides

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL DEVICES; ETCHING; OPTICAL MATERIALS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PHOTOLITHOGRAPHY; POLYBUTENES; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE MANUFACTURE; SILICA; SILICON WAFERS; SWITCHING; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY;

CYCLOTENE; DIGITAL OPTICAL SWITCH; OPTICAL POLYMER WAVEGUIDES; OPTICAL POLYMERS; RIB WAVEGUIDES;

OPTICAL SWITCHES;

EID: 0030105152     PISSN: 00135194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/el:19960380     Document Type: Article

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