Proposal for ultralow loss hollow-core plastic Bragg fiber with cobweb-structured cladding for terahertz waveguiding

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 19, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 910-912

  Yu, Rong Jin ^a   Zhang, Bing ^a   Zhang, Yong Qiang ^a   Wu, Chang Qi ^a   Tian, Zhen Guo ^a   Bai, Xiang Zhong ^a  

^a YANSHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Bragg fiber; Cobweb structured cladding; Loss; Terahertz (THz) wave

Indexed keywords

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; WAVE TRANSMISSION; WAVEGUIDES;

COBWEB-STRUCTURED CLADDING; TERAHERTZ WAVE; TRANSMISSION LOSS;

FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS;

EID: 34249947257     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2007.897504     Document Type: Article

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