Fabrication of ridge waveguides by UV embossing and stamping of sol-gel hybrid materials

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 1888-1890

  Kim, Woo Soo ^a   Lee, Jong Hwan ^a   Shin, Sang Yung ^a   Bae, Byeong Soo ^a   Kim, Young Cheol ^b  

^a Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

^b Korea University of Technology and Education   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLADDING (COATING); CURING; LIGHT PROPAGATION; MULTIMODE FIBERS; OPTICAL FIBER FABRICATION; OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; ORGANIC POLYMERS; SOL-GELS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; THERMAL EFFECTS; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

LARGE CORE MULTIMODE WAVEGUIDE; ORGANIC INORGANIC HYBRID MATERIALS; POLYDIMETHYL SILOXANE MOLD; RIDGE WAVEGUIDES; SOLGEL HYBRID MATERIALS; ULTRAVIOLET EMBOSSING; ULTRAVIOLET STAMPING;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 4043142233     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2004.831053     Document Type: Article

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