Volume grating couplers: Polarization and loss effects

Applied Optics

Volumn 41, Issue 25, 2002, Pages 5223-5229

  Villalaz, Ricardo A ^a   Glytsis, Elias N ^a   Gaylord, Thomas K ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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EID: 0036714496     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.41.005223     Document Type: Article

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