New coatings for metal-dielectric hollow waveguides

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4616, Issue , 2002, Pages 129-134

  George, Roshan J ^a   Harrington, James A ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ag AgI waveguide; Cu CuI waveguide; Flexible tubing; IR transmission; Large bore size; Mode characteristics; Plastic waveguide; Thin film interference

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; HIGH TEMPERATURE EFFECTS; INFRARED RADIATION; LIGHT INTERFERENCE; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; MULTIMODE FIBERS; POLYCARBONATES; SILVER COMPOUNDS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; THIN FILMS; TUBING;

FLEXIBLE PLASTIC TUBING; PLASTIC WAVEGUIDES;

DIELECTRIC WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 0036403461     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.463804     Document Type: Conference Paper

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