Sub-dB/cm propagation loss in silver stripe waveguides

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 697-702

  Park, Suntak ^a   Ju, Jung Jin ^a   Kim, Jin Tae ^a,b   Kim, Min Su ^a   Park, Seung Koo ^a   Lee, Jong Moo ^a   Lee, Wook Jae ^a,b   Lee, Myung Hyun ^c  

^a Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI)   (South Korea)

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

^c Sungkyunkwan University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHOTORESISTS; SILICON NITRIDE; SILVER; SINGLE MODE FIBERS; WAVEGUIDES;

DOUBLE LAYERS; FLUORINATED POLYMERS; LIFT-OFF PROCESS; MULTI-MODE WAVEGUIDES; POLARIZATION MAINTAINING SINGLE MODE FIBERS; PROPAGATION LOSS; STRIPE PATTERN; STRIPE WAVEGUIDE;

ELECTRIC LOSSES;

ELECTRICITY; FLUORINATION; POLARIZATION; POLYMERS; SILICON COMPOUNDS; SILVER COMPOUNDS; WAVE LENGTHS;

EID: 58449119417     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.000697     Document Type: Article

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