Metallic mode confinement in microstructured fibres

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 5983-5990

  Hou, Jing ^a,b   Bird, David ^a   George, Alan ^a   Maier, Stefan ^a,c   Kuhlmey, Boris T ^d   Knight, J C ^a  

^a University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF DEFENSE TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBER OPTICS; LIGHT PROPAGATION; LIGHT REFLECTION; MICROSTRUCTURE;

METALLIC MODE CONFINEMENT; METALLIC OPTICAL FIBERS; VISIBLE LIGHT;

SINGLE MODE FIBERS;

METAL;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; FIBER OPTICS; REFRACTOMETRY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

FIBER OPTICS; METALS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; REFRACTOMETRY;

EID: 43049139567     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.005983     Document Type: Article

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