Planar Bragg grating in bulk Polymethylmethacrylate

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 25, 2012, Pages 27288-27296

  Rosenberger, M ^a   Koller, G ^a   Belle, S ^a   Schmauss, B ^b   Hellmann, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES ASCHAFFENBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAGG GRATING STRUCTURE; KRF EXCIMER LASER; PHASE MASKS; WRITING PROCESS;

EXCIMER LASERS; PLANAR WAVEGUIDES; POLYESTERS; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

BRAGG GRATINGS;

ALCOHOL DERIVATIVE; AROMATIC HYDROCARBON; POLY(METHYL METHACRYLATE); WATER;

ARTICLE; BIOCHEMISTRY; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRONICS; EXCIMER LASER; HUMIDITY; METHODOLOGY; REFRACTOMETRY; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRANSDUCER; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

ALCOHOLS; BIOCHEMISTRY; HUMIDITY; HYDROCARBONS, AROMATIC; LASERS, EXCIMER; MINIATURIZATION; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POLYMETHYL METHACRYLATE; REFRACTOMETRY; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS; WATER;

EID: 84870602790     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.027288     Document Type: Article

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