Electro-optic single-crystalline organic waveguides and nanowires grown from the melt

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 15, 2008, Pages 11310-11327

  Figi, Harry ^a   Jazbinšek, Mojca ^a   Hunziker, Christoph ^a   Koechlin, Manuel ^a   Günter, Peter ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOROSILICATE GLASS; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; GLASS BONDING; MODULATION; NANOWIRES; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL MATERIALS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; ORGANIC POLYMERS; PHASE MODULATION; SINGLE CRYSTALS; WAFER BONDING;

ELECTRO-OPTIC POLYMERS; ELECTROOPTIC CRYSTALS; GROWN FROM THE MELTS; HIGH-INDEX CONTRAST WAVEGUIDES; MODULATION BANDWIDTH; NON-CENTROSYMMETRIC; ORGANIC NONLINEAR OPTICAL MATERIALS; PHOTOCHEMICAL STABILITY;

WAVEGUIDES;

NANOTUBE; ORGANIC COMPOUND;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CRYSTALLIZATION; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HEAT; INSTRUMENTATION; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICS; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

CRYSTALLIZATION; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HEAT; MATERIALS TESTING; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NANOTUBES; OPTICS; ORGANIC CHEMICALS;

EID: 47849117964     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.011310     Document Type: Article

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