Low bending loss metal waveguide embedded in a free-standing multilayered polymer film

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 228-234

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

^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

POLYMERS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SEMICONDUCTING FILMS; SILVER; WAVEGUIDES;

BENDING LOSS; INNER CLADDING; LOW BENDING LOSS; LOW LOSS POLYMERS; METAL WAVEGUIDES; MULTI-LAYERED;

POLYMER FILMS;

METAL; POLYMER;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; OPTICS; REFRACTOMETRY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LIGHT; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; METALS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; OPTICAL DEVICES; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; POLYMERS; REFRACTOMETRY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 58649106664     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.000228     Document Type: Article

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