Lithium niobate photonic wires

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 26, 2009, Pages 24261-24268

  Hu, H ^a   Ricken, R ^a   Sohler, W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADERBORN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NIOBIUM COMPOUNDS; REFRACTION; SILICON COMPOUNDS;

GROUP INDEX; LITHIUM NIOBATE; MODE INDEX; MODE INTENSITY; PHOTONIC WIRES; PROPAGATION LOSS; SIMULATION RESULT; SINGLE-CRYSTALLINE;

WIRE;

LITHIUM NIOBATE; NANOMATERIAL; NIOBIUM; OXIDE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; MATERIALS TESTING; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; PHOTON; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; MATERIALS TESTING; NANOSTRUCTURES; NIOBIUM; OPTICAL DEVICES; OXIDES; PHOTONS; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 73949101934     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.024261     Document Type: Article

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