Sol-gel fabrication for optical communication components: Prospects and progress

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 10290, Issue , 1997, Pages 119-142

  Yeatman, Eric M ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Optical amplifiers; Optical fibre communication; Photonics

Indexed keywords

GUIDED ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL FIBER COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL FIBERS; PHOTONIC DEVICES; PHOTONICS; SOL-GEL PROCESS;

COMMUNICATION COMPONENTS; COMPETITIVE SUCCESS; OPTICAL GUIDED WAVES; OPTICAL TECHNOLOGY; SOL-GEL MATERIALS; SOLGEL FILMS;

SOL-GELS;

EID: 85034192189     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: 1996756X     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.279834     Document Type: Conference Paper

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