Thermal fixing of refractive index gratings in a photorefractive polymer

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 71, Issue 13, 1997, Pages 1828-1830

  Cheng, Ning ^a   Swedek, Bogdan ^a   Prasad, Paras N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; COMPOSITE MATERIALS; FULLERENES; HEAT TREATMENT; LIGHT; MOLECULES; POLYMERS; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

PHOTOREFRACTIVE GRATINGS; POLYMERIC COMPOSITE; POLYVINYL CARBAZOLE; THERMAL FIXING; TRICRESYL PHOSPHATE; WRITING BEAMS;

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS;

EID: 0031223211     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.119412     Document Type: Article

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