Fabrication of three-dimensional micro-photonic structures on the tip of optical fibers using SU-8

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 23, 2011, Pages 22910-22922

  Williams, Henry E ^a   Freppon, Daniel J ^a   Kuebler, Stephen M ^a   Rumpf, Raymond C ^b   Melino, Marco A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b University of Texas at El Paso   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBERS; MULTIPHOTON PROCESSES; OPTICAL INSTRUMENT LENSES; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; PHOTONIC DEVICES; RESINS; SPINNING (FIBERS); THREE DIMENSIONAL;

COMPOUND LENS; CONTROLLED THICKNESS; CROSS-LINKABLE; CROSS-LINKED MATERIALS; DIRECT LASER WRITING; INTEGRATED PHOTONIC DEVICES; LOW PROFILE; MICRO-DEVICE FABRICATION; MULTIPHOTONS; REFRACTIVE LENS;

OPTICAL FIBER FABRICATION;

EID: 80755143381     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.022910     Document Type: Article

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