Polymer waveguide overlays for side-polished fiber devices

Applied Optics

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 453-462

  Lee, Sang Goo ^a   Sokoloff, Jason P ^a   Sokoloff, Brian P ^a   Sasabe, Hiroyuki ^a  

^a INST OF PHYS AND CHEMICAL RESEARCH   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; CALCULATIONS; FABRICATION; OPTICAL COATINGS; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL FILTERS; OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SEMICONDUCTING POLYMERS; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE STRUCTURES; THICK FILMS;

BESSEL FUNCTIONS; CHANNEL DROPPING FILTERS; SPIN COATING;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 0031699531     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.37.000453     Document Type: Article

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