Small-bore hollow waveguides for delivery of 3-μm laser radiation

Applied Optics

Volumn 35, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 1077-1082

  Kozodoy, Rebecca L ^a   Pagkalinawan, Antonio T ^a   Harringtonng, James A ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Erbium YAG; Erbium YSGG; Fiber optics; Hollow waveguides; Infrared waveguides; Power delivery

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001585590     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.35.001077     Document Type: Article

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