Design and fabrication of a polymeric flat focal field arrayed waveguide grating

Optics Express

Volumn 13, Issue 25, 2005, Pages 9982-9994

  Lu, Si ^a   Yang, Changxi ^a   Yan, Yingbai ^a   Jin, Guofan ^a   Zhou, Zhaoying ^a   Wong, W H ^b   Pun, E Y B ^b  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABERRATIONS; DEMULTIPLEXING; ELECTRON BEAMS; EPOXY RESINS; ERROR ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; POLYMERS;

ABERRATION THEORY; FOCAL FIELD WAVEGUIDE GRATING; TRANSMISSION SPECTRA;

WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 28944437415     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.13.009982     Document Type: Article

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