Photobleaching fabrication of microring resonator in a chromophore- containing polymer

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 18, Issue 21, 2006, Pages 2221-2223

  Zhou, Jun ^b   Pyayt, Anan ^a   Dalton, Larry R ^a   Luo, Jingdong ^c   Jen, Alex K Y ^c   Chen, Antao ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b JIANGSU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c University of Washington   (United States)

Author keywords

Integrated optics; Microresonators; Optical polymers; Photobleaching

Indexed keywords

EXTINCTION RATIOS; FABRICATION METHOD; FABRICATION TECHNIQUE; MICRO RESONATORS; MICRORING RESONATOR; OPTICAL POLYMERS; POLYMER THIN FILMS; POLYMER WAVEGUIDES;

CHROMOPHORES; FABRICATION; INTEGRATED OPTICS; OPTICAL MATERIALS; OPTICAL RESONATORS; PHOTOBLEACHING; PHOTONICS; POLYMER FILMS; POLYMERIC FILMS;

POLYMERS;

EID: 44049094781     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2006.884268     Document Type: Article

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