Flexible, stable, and easily processable optical silicones for low loss polymer waveguides

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8622, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Swatowski, Brandon W ^a   Amb, Chad M ^a   Breed, Sarah K ^a   Deshazer, David J ^a   Weidner, W Ken ^a   Dangel, Roger F ^b   Meier, Norbert ^b   Offrein, Bert J ^b  

^a DOW CORNING CORPORATION   (United States)

^b IBM RESEARCH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLEXIBLE POLYIMIDE SUBSTRATE; FLEXIBLE POLYMERS; LOW LOSS POLYMERS; OPTICAL PERFORMANCE; PHOTOPATTERNABLE; POLYMER WAVEGUIDES; SILICONE MATERIALS; STORAGE CONDITION;

PHOTOLITHOGRAPHY; PHOTONIC DEVICES; POLYIMIDES; POLYMERS; SILICONES;

WAVEGUIDE COMPONENTS;

EID: 84878132079     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.2007419     Document Type: Conference Paper

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