Fabrication of multi-core structures in an optical fiber using plasma self-channeling

Optics Express

Volumn 11, Issue 15, 2003, Pages 1780-1786

  Cho, Sung Hak ^a   Kumagai, Hiroshi ^a   Midorikawa, Katsumi ^a  

^a RIKEN   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; METALLORGANIC CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL DESIGN; OPTICAL KERR EFFECT; OPTICAL SENSORS; PLASMA APPLICATIONS; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

FEMTOSECOND LASERS; LASER MATERIAL PROCESSING; OPTICAL DESIGN AND FABRICATION; PLASMA SELF-CHANNELING;

MULTIMODE FIBERS;

EID: 2442511707     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.11.001780     Document Type: Article

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