Effects of thermal annealing on the optical characteristics of K+-Na+ waveguides

Applied Optics

Volumn 37, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 2346-2356

  Ciminelli, Caterina ^a   D'Orazio, Antonella ^a   Sario, Marco De ^a   Gerardi, Cosimo ^a,b   Petruzzelli, Vincenzo ^a   Prudenzano, Francesco ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI BARI   (Italy)

^b Centro Nazionale per la Ricerca e lo Sviluppo dei Materiali   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNEALING; DIFFUSION; LIGHT PROPAGATION; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; OPTICAL GLASS; OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; POTASSIUM; PRISMS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SECONDARY ION MASS SPECTROMETRY; SUBSTRATES; VAPORS;

ION EXCHANGED WAVEGUIDES; PROPAGATION LOSS; REFRACTIVE INDEX PROFILE; WAVEGUIDE FABRICATION;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 0032046792     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.37.002346     Document Type: Article

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