Resonant polymeric waveguide cantilever integrated for optical scanning

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 850-860

  Panergo, Reynold ^a   Huang, Cheng Sheng ^a   Liu, Chao Shih ^b   Reinhall, Per G ^a   Wang, Wei Chih ^a,c  

^a University of Washington   (United States)

^b NATIONAL DEFENSE UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c SOUTHERN TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

2 D optical scanner; Optical waveguide; Resonant cantilever; SU 8

Indexed keywords

LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT SCATTERING; LIGHT SOURCES; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; SCANNING; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

IMAGE SCANNING; OPTICAL SCANNER; RESONANT POLYMERIC WAVEGUIDE CANTILEVER;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 34247147754     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2006.889676     Document Type: Article

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