Planar hybrid polymer-silica microlenses with tunable beamwidth and focal length

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1107-1109

  Glebov, Alexei L ^a   Huang, Lidu ^a   Aoki, Shigenori ^a   Lee, Michael ^a   Yokouchi, Kishio ^a  

^a FUJITSU LABORATORIES OF AMERICA   (United States)

Author keywords

Beam propagation; Beamwidth control; Microlenses; Optical polymers; Planar lightwave circuits (PLCs) technology; Silica waveguides; Tunable integrated optics devices

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; INSERTION LOSSES; LIGHT PROPAGATION; OPTICAL MATERIALS; OPTIMIZATION; POLYMERS; SILICA; TEMPERATURE; WAVEGUIDES;

HYBRID POLYMER SILICA MICROLENSES; PLANAR LIGHT WAVE CIRCUIT TECHNOLOGY; TUNABLE BEAMWIDTH;

MICROLENSES;

EID: 1942500926     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2004.824992     Document Type: Article

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