Delivery of high energy radiation in mid-infrared spectral region by hollow waveguides

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4957, Issue , 2003, Pages 178-182

  Němec, Michal ^a   Jelínková, Helena ^a   Šulc, Jan ^a   Černý, Pavel ^a   Miyagi, Mitsunobu ^b   Iwai, Katsumasa ^b   Abe, Yukio ^b   Shi, Yi Wei ^b   Matsuura, Yuji ^b  

^a CZECH TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY IN PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cyclic olefin polymer coated silver hollow glass waveguide; Er:YAG laser; High energy delivery; Waveguide transmittance

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL LASERS; DOPING (ADDITIVES); ERBIUM; HIGH ENERGY LASERS; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; THROUGHPUT; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

CYCLIC OLEFIN POLYMER COATED SILVER HOLLOW GLASS WAVEGUIDE; HIGH ENERGY RADIATION; HOLLOW WAVEGUIDES; MIDINFRARED SPECTRAL REGION;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 0345725018     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.478044     Document Type: Conference Paper

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