Birefringence in optical waveguides made by silicon nanocrystal superlattices

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 85, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1268-1270

  Riboli, F ^a   Navarro Urrios, D ^a   Chiasera, A ^a   Daldosso, N ^a   Pavesi, L ^a   Oton, C J ^b   Heitmann, J ^c   Yi, L X ^c   Scholz, R ^c   Zacharias, M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE LA LAGUNA   (Spain)

^c Institute of Microstructure Physics   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; ANNEALING; APPROXIMATION THEORY; BIREFRINGENCE; EVAPORATION; LIGHT POLARIZATION; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; OXIDATION; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SILICON; STOICHIOMETRY; SUPERLATTICES; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; VOLUME FRACTION;

BRUGGEMANN APPROXIMATIONS; OPTICAL CONSTANTS; PLANAR WAVEGUIDES; THERMAL ANNEALING; TRANSVERSE ELECTRIC (TE) MODES;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 4444291800     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1779969     Document Type: Article

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