Chalcogenide glass microspheres; their production, characterization and potential

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 26, 2007, Pages 17542-17553

  Elliott, Gregor R ^a   Hewak, Daniel W ^a   Murugan, G Senthil ^a   Wilkinson, James S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHALCOGENIDES; MULTIPLEXING; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL RESONATORS; PHOTONIC DEVICES; SPHERES;

GALLIUM-LANTHANUM-SULPHIDE GLASS; NONLINEAR EFFECTS; POTENTIAL GEOMETRY;

MICROSPHERES;

CHALCOGEN; GLASS; MICROSPHERE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEASIBILITY STUDY; INSTRUMENTATION; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSDUCER;

CHALCOGENS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; GLASS; MICROSPHERES; MODELS, CHEMICAL; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 37549006457     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.017542     Document Type: Article

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