Infrared hollow-glass fiber produced by fiber-drawing technique

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4957, Issue , 2003, Pages 79-83

  Matsuura, Yuji ^a   Kasahara, Ryosuke ^a   Katagiri, Takashi ^a   Miyagi, Mitsunobu ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Hollow fibers; Infrared fibers; Infrared lasers

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; DIELECTRIC WAVEGUIDES; FUSED SILICA; GLASS FIBERS; INFRARED DEVICES; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SOLID STATE LASERS;

FIBER-DRAWING TECHNIQUE; INFRARED FIBERS; INFRARED HOLLOW-GLASS FIBER; INFRARED LASERS;

OPTICAL FIBERS;

EID: 0345282945     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.478052     Document Type: Conference Paper

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