Measurement of the refractive-index profile of planar waveguides by the use of a double Lloyd’s interferometer

Applied Optics

Volumn 35, Issue 31, 1996, Pages 6173-6178

  Ramadan, W A ^a,b   Fazio, E ^a   Bertolotti, M ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b MANSOURA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Glasses; Graded index devices; Integrated optics; Optical materials; Optical testing techniques; Phaseshifting interferometry; Waveguides

Indexed keywords

EID: 0141470905     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.35.006173     Document Type: Article

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