Microstructured fibers for broadband wavefront filtering in the mid-IR

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 24, 2006, Pages 11773-11786

  Flanagan, Joanne C ^a   Richardson, D J ^a   Foster, M J ^b   Bakalski, I ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b Arctic House   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; ERROR DETECTION; INTERFEROMETRY; INTERPLANETARY FLIGHT; MICROSTRUCTURE; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL FILTERS;

BROADBAND WAVEFRONT FILTERING; NULLING INTERFEROMETRY; OPTICAL TECHNOLOGY; WAVEFRONT FILTERS;

SPACE RESEARCH;

EID: 34648875714     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.011773     Document Type: Article

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