Hollow silica, metal, and plastic waveguides for hard-tissue medical applications

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 2977, Issue , 1997, Pages 30-35

  Croitoru, Nathan I ^a   Inberg, Alexandra ^a   Oksman, Mark ^a   Ben David, M ^a   Shefer, Arie ^b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b Wolfson Medical Center   (Israel)

Author keywords

Delivery system; Infrared; Plastic hollow waveguides; Waveguides

Indexed keywords

APPLICATIONS; BENDING (DEFORMATION); BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; FUNCTIONAL POLYMERS; INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; OPTICAL MATERIALS; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; POLYIMIDES; POLYMERS; SILICA;

BEAM PROFILE MEASUREMENTS; DELIVERY SYSTEM; HIGH POWERS; INCIDENT ANGLES; INFRARED; INTERNAL WALLS; MEASURED VALUES; MECHANICAL BENDING; MODE DISTRIBUTIONS; OPTICAL CHARACTERISTICS; PLASTIC SLEEVES; PLASTIC WAVEGUIDES; POLYIMIDE WAVEGUIDES; RADIUS OF CURVATURES; REMAINED CONSTANTS;

WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 0002396269     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.271023     Document Type: Conference Paper

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