Rare-earth doped sol-gel materials for optical waveguides

Optics and Lasers in Engineering

Volumn 43, Issue 3-5, 2005, Pages 341-347

  Locher, Martin ^a   Romano, Valerio ^a   Weber, Heinz P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Neodymium doping; Optical properties; Optical waveguide; Sol gel materials; Titanium co doping

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENCE; INTERFEROMETRY; NEODYMIUM; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SOL-GELS; THIN FILMS; TITANIUM;

CERAMIC MATRICES; LIGHT INTERFEROMETRY; MOLTENS; NEODYMIUM DOPING;

RARE EARTH ELEMENTS;

EID: 9444251175     PISSN: 01438166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.optlaseng.2004.04.007     Document Type: Article

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