Roughness-induced radiation losses in optical micro or nanofibers

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 21, 2007, Pages 13805-13816

  Zhai, Gaoye ^a   Tong, Limin ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; PHOSPHATES; RADIATION; SILICA; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

OPTICAL MICRO NANOFIBERS; SINUSOIDAL DEFORMATIONS; TAILORING WAVEGUIDING PROPERTIES; TELLURITE;

NANOFIBERS;

EID: 35348990856     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.013805     Document Type: Article

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