Electro-optic polymer based devices and technology for optical telecommunication

Comptes Rendus Physique

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 543-554

  Labbe, Patrick ^a,b   Donval, Ariela ^a   Hierle, R ^a   Toussaere, Eric ^a   Zyss, Joseph ^a  

^a LABORATOIRE DE PHOTONIQUE QUANTIQUE ET MOLÉCULAIRE   (France)

^b Motorola Labs   (France)

Author keywords

Devices; Electro optic polymers; Integrated optics; Optical telecommunication

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037647823     PISSN: 16310705     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1631-0705(02)01334-8     Document Type: Article

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