Efficient focusing polymer waveguide grating couplers

Electronics Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 623-624

  Waldhausl R ^a   Schnabel, B ^b   Kley, E B ^b   Brauer A ^a  

^a FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED OPTICS AND PRECISION ENGINEERING   (Germany)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Optical polymers; Optical waveguides

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; ELECTRON BEAM LITHOGRAPHY; FOCUSING; OPTICAL FIBER FABRICATION; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; POLYMETHYL METHACRYLATES; REFRACTIVE INDEX; THIN FILMS;

FOCUSING POLYMER WAVEGUIDE GRATING COUPLERS;

WAVEGUIDE COUPLERS;

EID: 0031096058     PISSN: 00135194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/el:19970400     Document Type: Article

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