Optical wave propagation in epitaxial Nd:Y2O3 planar waveguides

Applied Optics

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 586-591

  Li, Wei ^a   Webster, Scott E ^a   Kumaran, Raveen ^a   Penson, Shawn ^a   Tiedje, Thomas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MOLECULAR BEAM EPITAXY; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; OXIDE FILMS; PLANAR WAVEGUIDES; POLYMETHYL METHACRYLATES; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SAPPHIRE; WAVE PROPAGATION; WAVEGUIDES; YTTRIUM OXIDE;

CLADDING LAYER; DISPERSION RELATIONS; LOSS MEASUREMENT; NEODYMIUM DOPED; OPTICAL WAVE PROPAGATION; PLANE SAPPHIRE; PROPAGATION LOSS; ROOT MEAN SQUARE;

SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

EID: 76649096726     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.49.000586     Document Type: Article

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