Photonic textile fibers

Applied Optics

Volumn 35, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 1991-1994

  Balachandran, R M ^a   Pacheco, D P ^b   Lawandy, N M ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Spectra Science Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

Lasing fibers; Lasing textiles; Photonic coding applications; Scattering gain medium

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000759839     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.35.001991     Document Type: Article

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