Liquid core ARROW waveguides by atomic layer deposition

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 22, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 616-618

  Testa, Genni ^a   Huang, Yujian ^b   Zeni, Luigi ^c   Sarro, Pasqualina M ^b   Bernini, Romeo ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ELECTROMAGNETIC SENSING OF THE ENVIRONMENT   (Italy)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c Università di Napoli   (Italy)

Author keywords

Antiresonant reflecting optical waveguide (ARROW); Atomic layer deposition (ALD); Liquid waveguides

Indexed keywords

ANTIRESONANT; ANTIRESONANT REFLECTING OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; ARROW WAVEGUIDES; ATTENUATION LOSS; FABRICATED STRUCTURES; LIQUID CORES; LIQUID WAVEGUIDES; LOW-LOSS LIQUIDS; OUTPUT TRANSMISSION; THEORETICAL PREDICTION; TRANSMITTED SPECTRA;

ATOMIC LAYER DEPOSITION; ATOMS; CIRCULAR WAVEGUIDES; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; TITANIUM; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

LIQUIDS;

EID: 77950660094     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2010.2043352     Document Type: Article

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