Detailed study of silver metallic film diffusion in a soda-lime glass substrate for optical waveguide fabrication

Applied Optics

Volumn 41, Issue 15, 2002, Pages 2888-2893

  Belkhir, Abdelhak ^a  

^a FERHAT ABBAS UNIVERSITY   (Algeria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSION; ELECTROMIGRATION; GLASS; ION EXCHANGE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METALLIC FILMS; SILVER;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDE FABRICATION;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 0037140598     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.41.002888     Document Type: Article

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