Manipulating and controlling the evanescent field within optical waveguides using high index nanolayers

Optical Materials Express

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 192-200

  Canning, John ^a   Padden, Whayne ^a   Boskovic, Danijel ^a   Naqshbandi, Masood ^a   de Bruyn, Hank ^a   Crossley, Maxwell J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEVICES UNDER TESTS; EVANESCENT FIELDS; HIGH INDEX; INTERFACE LAYER; LOCALISATION; MATERIALS RESEARCH; NANO LAYERS; OPTICAL FIELD; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; SELF-ASSEMBLED; SPECIALTY MATERIALS; TIO; WAVEGUIDE TECHNOLOGY; SELF-ASSEMBLED LAYERS;

NANOPHOTONICS; OPTICAL FIBERS; PORPHYRINS; SILICA; TITANIUM DIOXIDE; BORON COMPOUNDS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; OXIDE MINERALS; TIO2 NANOPARTICLES;

WAVEGUIDES; EVANESCENT FIELDS;

EID: 84855471465     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21593930     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OME.1.000192     Document Type: Article

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