Birefringence control and dimension monitoring of silica-based ridge waveguides using Bragg gratings and ultraviolet irradiation

Optical Engineering

Volumn 44, Issue 12, 2005, Pages

  Dai, Xiaoli ^a   Mihailov, Stephen J ^a   Callender, Claire L ^a   Walker, Robert B ^a   Blanchetière, Chantal ^a   Jiang, Jia ^a  

^a Industry Canada   (Canada)

Author keywords

Birefringence control; Bragg gratings; Planar waveguides; UV irradiation; Wavelength shift

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS; NUMERICAL METHODS; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

BIREFRINGENCE CONTROL; PLANAR WAVEGUIDES; SILICA-BASED RIDGE WAVEGUIDES; ULTRAVIOLET IRRADIATION;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 33745502112     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: 15602303     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.2138680     Document Type: Article

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