Tunable elastomer-based virtually imaged phased array

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 3324-3335

  Metz, Philipp ^a   Block, Hendrik ^a   Behnke, Christopher ^a   Krantz, Matthias ^a   Gerken, Martina ^a   Adam, Jost ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISPERSIONS; ELASTOMERS; MICROCHANNELS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; REFLECTIVE COATINGS; THERMAL EXPANSION;

ANGULAR RANGE; CONVENTIONAL GRATING; DISPERSION CHARACTERISTICS; DISPERSION LAW; FINE TUNING; FREE SPECTRAL RANGE; HIGH POTENTIAL; PERFORMANCE MEASURE; POLYDIMETHYLSILOXANE PDMS; RESONATOR CAVITIES; SEMI-TRANSPARENT; TEMPERATURE INCREASE; THERMOOPTIC EFFECTS; TOP COATING; TUNABILITIES; VIRTUALLY IMAGED PHASED ARRAYS; WAFER-LEVEL INTEGRATION;

SILICONES;

DIMETICONE; NYLON; POLY(DIMETHYLSILOXANE) POLYAMIDE COPOLYMER; POLY(DIMETHYLSILOXANE)-POLYAMIDE COPOLYMER;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; REFRACTOMETRY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

DIMETHYLPOLYSILOXANES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; NYLONS; REFRACTOMETRY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 84874046550     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.003324     Document Type: Article

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