Integrated microfluidic variable optical attenuator

Optics Express

Volumn 13, Issue 24, 2005, Pages 9916-9921

  Zhu, Lin ^a   Huang, Yanyi ^a   Yariv, Amnon ^a  

^a California Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC ATTENUATORS; FLUIDICS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

MICROFLUIDIC CHANNELS; OPTICAL ATTENUATORS;

OPTICAL DEVICES;

EID: 28044438147     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.13.009916     Document Type: Article

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