Experimental and numerical study of SiON microresonators with air and polymer cladding

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1099-1110

  Klunder, D J W ^a,b   Tan, F S ^a   Van der Veen, T ^a,b   Bulthuis, H F ^b,c   Sengo, G ^a   Docter, B ^a,b   Hoekstra, H J W M ^a   Driessen, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b Concept to Volume ^*  (Netherlands)

^c Alcatel Optronics UK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Device modeling; Integrated optics; Loss measurements; Microresonators; Optical waveguides

Indexed keywords

CLADDING (COATING); ELECTROOPTICAL EFFECTS; INTEGRATED OPTICS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; POLYMETHYL METHACRYLATES; RESONANCE;

MICRORESONATORS;

RESONATORS;

EID: 0038155153     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2003.810100     Document Type: Article

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