Low-index discontinuity terahertz waveguides

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 21, 2006, Pages 9944-9954

  Nagel, Michael ^a   Marchewka, Astrid ^a   Kurz, Heinrich ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DISPERSION (WAVES); ENDOSCOPY; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PHOTONS;

AIR GAP; DIELECTRIC THZ WAVEGUIDE; LOW INDEX DISCONTINUITY (LID); SINGLEMODE CONFINEMENT PROPERTIES;

INTEGRATED OPTICS;

EID: 33750370299     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.009944     Document Type: Article

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