Photoinduced integrated-optic devices in rapid thermally annealed chalcogenide glasses

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 260-270

  Ramachandran, Siddharth ^a   Bishop, Stephen G ^b  

^a OFS LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Amorphous semiconductors; Gratings; Holographic gratings; Loss measurement; Optical device fabrication; Optical losses; Optical materials; Optical planar waveguide components; Optical propagation; Optical spectroscopy; Optical variables measurement

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; FABRICATION; GLASS; HOLOGRAPHY; LIGHT PROPAGATION; OPTICAL MATERIALS; PHOTOCHROMISM; PHOTOLITHOGRAPHY; RAPID THERMAL ANNEALING; SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS;

AMORPHOUS SEMICONDUCTORS; HOLOGRAPHIC GRATING; LOSS MEASUREMENT; OPTICAL DEVICE FABRICATION; OPTICAL LOSSES; OPTICAL PLANAR WAVEGUIDE COMPONENTS; OPTICAL SPECTROSCOPY; OPTICAL VARIABLE MEASUREMENT;

OPTICAL DEVICES;

EID: 14544304599     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2004.841713     Document Type: Article

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