Narrow-band resonant grating waveguide filters constructed with azobenzene polymers

Applied Optics

Volumn 38, Issue 17, 1999, Pages 3714-3719

  Stockermans, Raymond J ^a   Rochon, Paul L ^a  

^a ROYAL MILITARY COLLEGE OF CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC POLYMERS; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIGHT REFLECTION; NITROGEN COMPOUNDS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PLASTIC FILMS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; WAVEGUIDE COUPLERS;

RESONANT GRATING WAVEGUIDE STRUCTURES; RIGOROUS COUPLED WAVE ANALYSIS (RCWA);

OPTICAL FILTERS;

EID: 0032613708     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.38.003714     Document Type: Article

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