Electrodispensing of Microspheroids for Lateral Refractive and Reflective Photonic Elements

IEEE Photonics Journal

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 873-883

  Born, B ^a   Landry, E L ^a   Holzman, J F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

light deflectors; optical device fabrication; optical polymers; optical reflection; optical refraction; Photonic integrated circuits

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008035439     PISSN: 19430655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPHOT.2010.2076800     Document Type: Article

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