Dielectric coatings for Ag/dielectric hollow glass waveguides

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4616, Issue , 2002, Pages 143-151

  Gopal, Veena ^a   Harrington, James A ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cyclic olefin polymer (COP); Index contrast; Interference; Lead sulfide (PbS); Morphology; Polystyrene (PS); Roughness; Silver (Ag); Solvent evaporation; Thickness

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION; DEPOSITION; DIELECTRIC FILMS; GLASS; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; METALLIC FILMS; OLEFINS; POLYSTYRENES; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; THICKNESS CONTROL;

HOLLOW GLASS WAVEGUIDES (HGW);

DIELECTRIC WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 0036401759     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.463807     Document Type: Conference Paper

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