New interfacial-gel copolymerization technique for steric GRIN polymer optical waveguides and lens arrays

Applied Optics

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 1988, Pages 486-491

  Koike, Yasuhiro ^a   Takezawa, Yoshitaka ^a   Yasuji, Ohtsuka ^a  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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EID: 84975664127     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.27.000486     Document Type: Article

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