Luneburg lens in silicon photonics

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 5156-5157

  Di Falco, Andrea ^a   Kehr, Susanne C ^a   Leonhardt, Ulf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHOTONIC DEVICES;

BUILDING BLOCKES; FABRICATION TECHNIQUE; IMAGING DEVICE; INTEGRATED LENS; LUNEBURG LENS; ON CHIPS; SILICON PHOTONICS; SILICON PLATFORMS;

OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS;

EID: 79952609233     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.005156     Document Type: Article

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