Transmission behaviors of single mode hollow metallic waveguides dedicated to mid-infrared nulling interferometry

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 26, 2007, Pages 18005-18013

  Abel Tibérini, Laëtitia ^a   Labadie, Lucas ^a,b   Arezki, Brahim ^a   Kern, Pierre ^a   Grille, Romain ^a   Labeye, Pierre ^c   Broquin, Jean Emmanuel ^d  

^a LABORATOIRE D ASTROPHYSIQUE   (France)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR ASTRONOMIE   (Germany)

^c CEA LETI   (France)

^d GRENOBLE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMPEDANCE MATCHING (ELECTRIC); INTERFEROMETRY; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT PROPAGATION; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; PHOTONICS;

COUPLING EFFICIENCY; METALLIC WAVEGUIDES; MID-INFRARED NULLING INTERFEROMETRY;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

METAL;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; INFRARED RADIATION; INSTRUMENTATION; INTERFEROMETRY; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; POROSITY; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY;

INFRARED RAYS; INTERFEROMETRY; LIGHT; METALS; POROSITY; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 37549006853     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.018005     Document Type: Article

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