Influence of humidity on refractive index of polymers for optical waveguide and its temperature dependence

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 72, Issue 13, 1998, Pages 1533-1535

  Watanabe, Toshio ^a   Ooba, Naoki ^a   Hida, Yasuhiro ^a   Hikita, Makoto ^a  

^a NTT CORPORATION   (Japan)

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Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; ESTIMATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOISTURE; OPTICAL MATERIALS; OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; POLYMETHYL METHACRYLATES; SWELLING; TEMPERATURE;

DEUTERATED POLYMETHYLMETHACRYLATE; HUMIDITY DEPENDENCE; HYDROPHOBIC POLYMER; LORENTZ-LORENZ MODEL; MOISTURE SORPTION; OPTICAL POLYMER; RETURN LOSS METHOD; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; THERMOOPTIC EFFECT;

REFRACTIVE INDEX;

EID: 0032024669     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.120574     Document Type: Article

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