Sol-gel glass waveguide and grating on silicon

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 16, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 1640-1646

  Najafi, S Iraj ^{a,b,c,e,f,g,h,i,l}   Touam, T ^c   Sara, R ^c   Andrews, M P ^d,j,k   Fardad, M A ^c  

^a IEEE   (Canada)

^b OSA ^*  (Canada)

^c ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^d MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^f ECOLE CENTRALE PARIS   (France)

^g UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^h International Society for Optical Engineering   (Canada)

ⁱ OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^k LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^l Photonics Research Group   (Canada)

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Author keywords

Gratings; Integrated optics; Photonics; Sol gel; Waveguides

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; FABRICATION; INTEGRATED OPTICS; OPTICAL GLASS; PERFORMANCE; SILICON; SOL-GELS;

SOL-GEL GLASS;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 0032162357     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/50.712247     Document Type: Article

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