Direct UV-written broadband directional planar waveguide couplers

Optics Express

Volumn 13, Issue 21, 2005, Pages 8390-8399

  Olivero, Massimo ^a,b   Svalgaard, Mikael ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

PLANAR WAVEGUIDE COUPLERS; UV-WRITING;

WAVEGUIDE COUPLERS;

EID: 26844538997     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.13.008390     Document Type: Article

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