Measurement of waveguide birefringence using a ring resonator

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1134-1136

  Carriere, James T A ^a   Frantz, Jesse A ^a   Youmans, Bruce R ^b   Honkanen, Seppo ^a   Kostuk, Raymond K ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b BAE SYSTEMS   (United States)

^c University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

Birefringence; Integrated optics; Optical resonators; Optical waveguides

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; INTEGRATED OPTICS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; OPTICAL GLASS; OPTICAL RESONATORS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; REFRACTIVE INDEX; RESONANCE;

ION-EXCHANGED WAVEGUIDE; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; RING RESONATOR; WAVEGUIDE BIREFRINGENCE;

OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT;

EID: 1942468619     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2004.824929     Document Type: Article

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