Cyclic olefin polymer-coated silver hollow glass waveguides for the infrared

Applied Optics

Volumn 37, Issue 33, 1998, Pages 7758-7762

  Shi, Yi Wei ^a   Wang, You ^a   Abe, Yukio ^a   Matsuura, Yuji ^a   Miyagi, Mitsunobu ^a   Sato, Shunichi ^b   Taniwaki, Manabu ^c   Uyama, Hiroshi ^d  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL DEFENSE MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

^c INSTITUTE OF RESEARCH AND INNOVATION   (Japan)

^d KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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EID: 0001488696     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.37.007758     Document Type: Article

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