Silver and potassium ion-exchanged waveguides in glasses doped with PbS semiconductor quantum dots

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1037-1045

  Auxier, Jason M ^a   Honkanen, Seppo ^a   Schülzgen, Axel ^a   Morrell, Michael M ^a   Leigh, Matthew A ^a   Sen, Sabyasachi ^b   Borrelli, Nicholas F ^b   Peyghambarian, Nasser ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b Glass Research Group Corning Inc Research and Development Center ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ION EXCHANGE; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL FIBER FABRICATION; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; POTASSIUM; SEMICONDUCTING LEAD COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; SILVER;

FABRICATING WAVEGUIDES; ION-EXCHANGED WAVEGUIDES; POTASSIUM-SODIUM ION-EXCHANGE PROCESSES; SILVER-SODIUM ION-EXCHANGE PROCESSES;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 33745919794     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.23.001037     Document Type: Article

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