Optical waveguides structured with photoaligning polymers

Optics Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 1333-1335

  Stump, Andrin ^a   Gubler, Ulrich ^a   Bosshard, Christian ^a  

^a CSEM   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FABRICATION; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAYS; LIQUID CRYSTAL POLYMERS; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; PHOTOPOLYMERIZATION; POLYMER BLENDS; REACTIVE ION ETCHING; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SUPERCONDUCTING TRANSITION TEMPERATURE; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

PHOTOALIGNING POLYMERS; POLYMER CHAINS; WAVEGUIDE FABRICATION; WAVEGUIDE STRUCTURES;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 20444477847     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.30.001333     Document Type: Article

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