Hollow-core polymer fibres with a kagome lattice: Potential for transmission in the infrared

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 7713-7719

  Argyros, Alexander ^a   Pla, Jarryd ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LASER CLADDING; MICROSTRUCTURE; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; PHOTONIC BAND GAP; POLYMERS;

HOLLOW-CORE POLYMER; KAGOME LATTICE; MATERIAL LOSS;

OPTICAL FIBERS;

EID: 34250176904     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.007713     Document Type: Article

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