Low loss and highly reliable polymer optical waveguides with perfluorinated dopant-free core

2006 Optical Fiber Communication Conference, and the 2006 National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Kuwana, Yasuhiro ^a   Takenobu, Shotaro ^a   Takayama, Kousuke ^a   Yokotsuka, Shunsuke ^a   Kodama, Shunichi ^a  

^a ASAHI GLASS CO LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS MATERIALS; ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; DURABILITY; LIGHT POLARIZATION; ORGANIC POLYMERS; WAVE PROPAGATION;

AMORPHOUS POLYMER; DOPANT FREE CORE; POLYMER OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 33845368356     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ofc.2006.215471     Document Type: Conference Paper

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