Patterned birefringence by photoinduced depoling in electro-optic polymers and its application to a waveguide polarization splitter

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 73, Issue 21, 1998, Pages 3052-3054

  Lee, Sang Shin ^a   Garner, Sean ^a   Chen, Antao ^a   Chuyanov, Vadim ^a   Steier, William H ^a   Guo, Lan ^b   Dalton, Larry R ^b   Shin, Sang Yung ^c  

^a University of Southern California ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTROOPTICAL EFFECTS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; MOLECULES; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SUBSTRATES;

ELECTRO OPTIC POLYMERS; PHOTOINDUCED DEPOLING; WAVEGUIDE POLARIZATION SPLITTER;

BIREFRINGENCE;

EID: 0032561605     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.122669     Document Type: Article

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