Fabrication of submicrometer high refractive index tantalum pentoxide waveguides for optical propulsion of microparticles

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 21, Issue 19, 2009, Pages 1408-1410

  Ahluwalia, Balpreet Singh ^a   Subramanian, Ananth Z ^b   Hellsø, Olav Gaute ^a   Perney, Nicolas M B ^b   Sessions, Neil P ^b   Wilkinson, James S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Integrated optics; Optical device fabrication; Optical strip waveguides; Optical waveguides

Indexed keywords

EVANESCENT FIELDS; GUIDED POWER; HIGH REFRACTIVE INDEX; LOW LOSS; MICRO-PARTICLES; OPTICAL DEVICE FABRICATION; OPTICAL PROPULSION; OPTICAL STRIP WAVEGUIDES; POLYSTYRENE PARTICLE; STRONG CONFINEMENT; SUBMICROMETER THICKNESS; SUBMICROMETERS; TANTALUM PENTOXIDE;

FABRICATION; INTEGRATED OPTICS; INTEGRATED OPTOELECTRONICS; LIGHT; LIGHT REFRACTION; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; OPTICAL MATERIALS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PHOTONICS; POLYSTYRENES; REFRACTIVE INDEX; REFRACTOMETERS; SILICON COMPOUNDS; SILICON OXIDES; TANTALUM; TANTALUM COMPOUNDS;

WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 70349592941     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2009.2027025     Document Type: Article

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