Optical waveguiding in suspensions of dielectric particles

Applied Optics

Volumn 44, Issue 36, 2005, Pages 7853-7857

  Conroy, Richard S ^a,b   Mayers, Brian T ^a,b   Vezenov, Dmitri V ^a,b   Wolfe, Daniel B ^a,b   Prentiss, Mara G ^a,b   Whitesides, George M ^a,b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Physics ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; RAYLEIGH SCATTERING; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS); VOLUME FRACTION;

DIELECTRIC PARTICLES; NANOPARTICLES; SCATTERING PROPERTIES;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 32344452239     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.44.007853     Document Type: Article

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