UV-patternable inorganic-organic hybrid materials tailored for use in electro-optic modulators

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7049, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Himmelhuber, Roland ^a   DeRose, Christopher C ^a   Norwood, Robert A ^a   Peyghambarian, Nasser ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Conductivity; Low loss; Polymer modulator; Sol gel

Indexed keywords

CLADDING LAYERS; CONDUCTIVITY; COUPLING LOSSES; ELEVATED TEMPERATURES; EO POLYMERS; HIGH CONDUCTIVITIES; IN-SITU FORMATIONS; LOSS MEASUREMENTS; LOW LOSS; LOW LOSSES; ORGANIC HYBRID MATERIALS; PASSIVE WAVEGUIDES; POLING EFFICIENCIES; POLYMER MODULATOR; PRISM MEASUREMENTS; RIDGE WAVEGUIDES; SLAB WAVEGUIDES; SOL-GEL; SOLVENT FREE; SYNTHESIS OF; WAVEGUIDE TRANSITIONS;

ABS RESINS; COLLOIDS; CONDUCTING POLYMERS; ELECTROOPTICAL DEVICES; GELATION; GELS; LIGHT REFRACTION; MODULATORS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL MATERIALS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; ORGANIC POLYMERS; POLYMERS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; REFRACTOMETERS; RESINS; SILANES; SOL-GEL PROCESS; SOL-GELS; SOLS; WAVE FILTERS; WAVEGUIDE TRANSFORMERS; WAVEGUIDES;

HYBRID MATERIALS;

EID: 55549101289     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.797544     Document Type: Conference Paper

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