Fabrication and characterization of a planar gradient-index, plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition lens

Applied Optics

Volumn 36, Issue 28, 1997, Pages 7143-7149

  Beltrami, Daniel R ^a   Love, John D ^a   Durandet, Antoine ^a   Samoć, Anna ^a   Cogswell, Carol J ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; ELECTRON DEVICE MANUFACTURE; FLUORESCENCE; GRADIENT INDEX OPTICS; ION BOMBARDMENT; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; MODAL ANALYSIS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PRISMS; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

GRADIENT INDEX SLAB LENS; HELICON PLASMA REACTOR; PLASMA ENHANCED CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION;

LENSES;

EID: 0031249558     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.36.007143     Document Type: Article

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