Laser direct writing polymeric single-mode waveguide devices with a rib structure

Applied Optics

Volumn 42, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 1236-1243

  Das, Alok K ^a  

^a JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLADDING (COATING); LASER BEAMS; LIGHT PROPAGATION; POLYMERIZATION; SILICON; SINGLE MODE FIBERS; THIN FILMS;

OPTICAL CHANNEL WAVEGUIDES;

WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 0042477557     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.42.001236     Document Type: Article

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