Tapered hollow waveguide for focusing infrared laser beams

Optics Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 930-932

  Narita, Satoshi ^b   Matsuura, Yuji ^a   Miyagi, Mitsunobu ^b  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b SENDAI NATIONAL COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DENTAL APPLICATIONS; TAPERED HOLLOW WAVEGUIDE; TAPERED OPTICS; TRAVELING TORCH;

FOCUSING; INFRARED DEVICES; INSERTION LOSSES; LASER BEAMS; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; OPTICAL INSTRUMENT LENSES;

WAVEGUIDE COMPONENTS;

EID: 33947431577     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.32.000930     Document Type: Article

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