Co-polymer clad design for high performance athermal photonic circuits

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 19, 2012, Pages 20808-20813

  Raghunathan, Vivek ^a   Yagüe, Jose Luis ^b   Xu, Jingjing ^b   Michel, Jurgen ^a   Gleason, Karen K ^b   Kimerling, Lionel C ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENZENE; BUTADIENE; CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; COPOLYMERS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

BEND LOSS; C-F BONDS; CO-POLYMER SYSTEMS; DIVINYL BENZENES; FLUORINATED ACRYLATE; HIGH BANDWIDTH; LOW-POWER CONSUMPTION; PHOTONIC CIRCUITS; SILICON PHOTONICS; THERMAL COMPENSATION; THERMOOPTIC COEFFICIENTS; VOLUME EXPANSION;

POLYMERS;

EID: 84866259293     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.020808     Document Type: Article

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