Design and investigation of properties of nanocrystalline diamond optical planar waveguides

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 8417-8425

  Prajzler, Vaclav ^a   Varga, Marian ^b,c   Nekvindova, Pavla ^d   Remes, Zdenek ^b   Kromka, Alexander ^b  

^a CZECH TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY IN PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

^b INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Czech Republic)

^c STUBA FEI/Institute of Electronics and Photonics   (Slovakia)

^d INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITS; DESIGN; PLANAR WAVEGUIDES; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; THIN FILMS; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

DIAMOND THIN FILM; DISPERSION EQUATIONS; MICROWAVE PLASMA ENHANCED CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITIONS; NANO-CRYSTALLINE DIAMONDS; NANOCRYSTALLINE DIAMOND THIN FILMS; OPTICAL PLANAR WAVEGUIDES; PRISM COUPLING TECHNIQUE; WAVEGUIDING PROPERTIES;

DIAMONDS;

DIAMOND; NANOPARTICLE;

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

CRYSTALLIZATION; DIAMOND; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; NANOPARTICLES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; REFRACTOMETRY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 84875982312     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.008417     Document Type: Article

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