Analysis and removal of fracture damage during and subsequent to holey fiber cleaving

Optics Express

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 535-540

  Huntington, S T ^a   Lyytikainen, K ^b   Canning, J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CAPILLARY TUBES; DIFFRACTION; FRACTURE; LIGHT INTERFERENCE; LIGHT PROPAGATION; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; OPTICAL MATERIALS; OPTIMIZATION; SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY; WAVEGUIDES;

AIR-SILICA STRUCTURED FIBERS; ALL-OPTICAL DEVICES; FIBER CHARACTERIZATION; FREE SPACE DIFFRACTION; FRESNEL FIBERS; HOLEY FIBERS; NANOSTRUCTURES; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL WAVEGUIDES; TAPERS;

FIBER OPTICS;

EID: 2942700172     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.11.000535     Document Type: Article

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