SiON integrated optics elliptic couplers for Fizeau-based optical coherence tomography

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 28, Issue 19, 2010, Pages 2836-2842

  Nguyen, Van Duc ^a   Ismail, Nur ^b   Sun, Fei ^b   Wörhoff, Kerstin ^b   Van Leeuwen, Ton G ^a   Kalkman, Jeroen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Elliptic couplers; integrated optics; optical coherence tomography

Indexed keywords

ELLIPTIC COUPLERS; NEW APPLICATIONS; OCT SIGNALS; OFF-CHIP; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; OPTICAL FIELD; SILICON OXYNITRIDES;

COST REDUCTION; GEOMETRY; INTEGRATED OPTICS; NITRIDES; OPTICAL MATERIALS; PHOTONICS; TOMOGRAPHY;

COHERENT LIGHT;

EID: 77956927499     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2010.2066958     Document Type: Article

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