Sol-gel waveguide fabrication parameters: An experimental investigation

Optical Engineering

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1101-1104

  Du, X M ^a,b   Touam, Tahar ^a   Degachi, L ^a   Guilbault, J L ^a   Andrews, Mark P ^b   Iraj Najafi, S ^a  

^a ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Integrated optics; Photonics; Ridge waveguide; Sol gel waveguide

Indexed keywords

EID: 1542576845     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.601833     Document Type: Article

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