Infrared transmissive, hollow plastic waveguides with inner Ag-Agl coatings

Applied Optics

Volumn 44, Issue 30, 2005, Pages 6449-6455

  George, Roshan ^a   Harrington, James A ^a  

^a The State University of New Jersey   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COATINGS; INFRARED RADIATION; LASER BEAMS; POLYCARBONATES; SILVER; SILVER COMPOUNDS; THIN FILMS;

BENDING LOSS; BORE SIZES; LASER INPUT; LASER WAVELENGTH;

WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 27944499861     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.44.006449     Document Type: Article

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