Subwavelength-diameter silica wires for low-loss optical wave guiding

Nature

Volumn 426, Issue 6968, 2003, Pages 816-819

  Tong, Limin ^a,b   Gattass, Rafael R ^a   Ashcom, Jonathan B ^a,d   He, Sailing ^b   Lou, Jingyi ^b   Shen, Mengyan ^a,c   Maxwell, Iva ^a   Mazur, Eric ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFRARED RADIATION; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; SURFACE PHENOMENA;

OPTICAL WAVE GUIDING;

SILICA;

WAVELENGTH;

ARTICLE; DEVICE; LIGHT; MICROPHOTOGRAPHY; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; PHOTON; POLARIMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; SURFACE PROPERTY; WAVEFORM;

EID: 0346096514     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature02193     Document Type: Article

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