Highly efficient organic electrooptic materials and their hybrid systems for advanced photonic devices

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Luo, Jingdong ^a   Jen, Alex K Y ^a  

^a University of Washington   (United States)

Author keywords

Direction coupler; Electric field poling; Electric field sensors; Electrooptic (EO) polymers; EO modulators; Photonic crystals; Pyroelectric poling; Slot waveguides

Indexed keywords

DIRECTION COUPLER; ELECTRIC FIELD POLING; ELECTRIC FIELD SENSORS; ELECTROOPTIC POLYMER; PYROELECTRIC POLING; SLOT WAVEGUIDE;

ELECTRIC FIELDS; HYBRID MATERIALS; HYBRID SYSTEMS; NANOPHOTONICS; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; PHOTONIC DEVICES; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SENSORS; WAVE FILTERS; WAVEGUIDES;

POLYMERS;

EID: 84880961784     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2013.2268385     Document Type: Review

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