Multiphoton lithography, processing and fabrication of photonic structures

Laser Growth and Processing of Photonic Devices

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 139-161

  Fourkas, J ^a  

^a University of Maryland   (United States)

Author keywords

Multiphoton absorption; Nonlinear optics; Photonic crystals; Waveguides

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886431221     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-1-84569-936-9.50005-5     Document Type: Chapter

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