Determination of refractive index profiles of Ag+-Na+ ion-exchange multimode strip waveguides by variable wavefront shear double-refracting interferometry microinterferometry

Applied Optics

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 756-763

  Mrozek, Piotr ^a   Mrozek, Ewa ^a   Lukaszewicz, Tadeusz ^a  

^a BIALYSTOK UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); ELECTRIC FIELDS; INTERFEROMETRY; ION EXCHANGE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SILVER COMPOUNDS; WAVEGUIDES;

DOUBLE REFRACTING INTERFEROMETRY; ELECTROCHEMICAL TECHNIQUES; MICROINTERFEROMETRY; STRIP WAVEGUIDES;

REFRACTIVE INDEX;

EID: 33645028035     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.45.000756     Document Type: Article

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