Optical nanofiber as an efficient tool for manipulating and probing atomic fluorescence

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 5431-5438

  Nayak, K P ^a   Melentiev, P N ^a,b   Morinaga, M ^a   Le Kien, Fam ^a   Balykin, V I ^a,b   Hakuta, K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRO COMMUNICATIONS   (Japan)

^b INSTITUTE OF SPECTROSCOPY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC EXCITATION; FLUORESCENCE; OPTICAL FIBERS; SILICA; VAN DER WAALS FORCES;

ATOMIC FLUORESCENCE; FLUORESCENCE EXCITATION SPECTRUM;

NANOFIBERS;

EID: 34248182147     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.005431     Document Type: Article

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