Integrated polymer optical accelerometer

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1262-1264

  Llobera, A ^a   Seidemann, Volker ^a,b   Plaza, Jose Antonio ^c   Cadarso, Victor J ^c   Buttgenbach S ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

^b SCHOTT Electronics Int Holding GmbH   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTO DE MICROELECTRÓNICA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Acceleration measurement; Optical polymers; Waveguides

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION MEASUREMENT; ACCELEROMETERS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; OPTICAL MATERIALS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; POLYMERS;

OPTICAL ACCELEROMETER; OPTICAL POLYMERS;

OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS;

EID: 20544446597     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2005.846458     Document Type: Article

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