M-lines characterization of selenide and telluride waveguides for mid-infrared interferometry

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 18, 2006, Pages 8459-8469

  Labadie, Lucas ^a,b   Vigreux Bercovici, Caroline ^c   Pradel, Annie ^c   Kern, Pierre ^b   Arezki, Brahim ^b   Broquin, Jean Emmanuel ^d  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR ASTRONOMIE   (Germany)

^b LABORATOIRE D ASTROPHYSIQUE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTPELLIER   (France)

^d IMEP LAHC   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNCTIONS; INTEGRATED OPTICS; INTERFEROMETRY; OPTICAL FILTERS; PERMITTIVITY; SINGLE MODE FIBERS;

MID-INFRARED INTERFEROMETRY; NULLING INTERFEROMETRY; SINGLE-MODE GUIDED OPTICS; TELLURIDE WAVEGUIDES;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 33748331263     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.008459     Document Type: Article

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