High performance polymer waveguide devices via low cost direct photolithography process

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4904, Issue , 2002, Pages 129-138

  Wang, Jianguo ^a   Shustack, Paul ^a   Garner, Sean ^a  

^a Science and Technology Division ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPOLYMERIZATION; COPOLYMERS; ELECTRON BEAM LITHOGRAPHY; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; MONOMERS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; OPTICAL CORRELATION; OPTICAL DESIGN; OPTICAL FIBERS; PHOTORESISTS; PHOTOSENSITIVITY; REFRACTIVE INDEX; THIN FILMS; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROSCOPY;

OPTICAL NETWORKS;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 0036458407     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.481208     Document Type: Conference Paper

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