Photo-stability measurement of electro-optic polymer waveguides with high intensity at 1550-nm wavelength

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 27, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1045-1050

  Takahashi, Satsuki ^a   Bhola, Bipin ^a,b   Yick, Andrew ^a   Steier, William H ^a   Luo, Jingdong ^c   Jen, Alex K Y ^c   Jin, Dan ^d   Dinu, Raluca ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b DATA STORAGE INSTITUTE   (Singapore)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^d Lumera Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

Optical polymers; Optical waveguides; Photo degradation; Photo stability

Indexed keywords

1550 NM; AMBIENT ATMOSPHERES; ELECTRO-OPTIC POLYMERS; HIGH INTENSITIES; INPUT POWER; OPTICAL POLYMERS; PHOTO-DEGRADATION; PHOTO-STABILITY; RIDGE WAVEGUIDES;

DEGRADATION; INTEGRATED OPTOELECTRONICS; OPTICAL PROJECTORS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; POLYMERS; STABILITY;

WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 65649098715     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2008.2011500     Document Type: Article

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