Polymeric optical waveguide circuits formed using silicone resin

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1049-1055

  Watanabe, Toshio ^a,b   Ooba, Naoki ^a,c   Hayashida, Shoichi ^a,d   Kurihara, Takashi ^a,d,e,f   Imamura, Saburo ^a  

^a NTT CORPORATION   (Japan)

^b TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e JAPAN SOCIETY OF APPLIED PHYSICS   (Japan)

^f Society of Polymer Science   (Japan)

Author keywords

Arrayed waveguide grating; Birefringence; Digital thermooptic switch; Directional coupler; Environmental stability; Multi demultiplexer; Optical waveguide circuit; Polymer; Silicone resin

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; MULTIPLEXING EQUIPMENT; OPTICAL FIBER COUPLING; OPTICAL SWITCHES; SILICONES;

ARRAYED WAVEGUIDE GRATING (AWG) MULTI/DEMULTIPLEXERS; DIGITAL THERMOOPTIC SWITCHES; DIRECTIONAL COUPLERS; ENVIRONMENTAL STABILITY; POLYMERIC OPTICAL WAVEGUIDE CIRCUITS;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 0032097457     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/50.681462     Document Type: Article

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