Modeling endface output patterns of optical micro/nanofibers

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 8887-8895

  Wang, Shan Shan ^a   Fu, Jian ^a   Qiu, Min ^b   Huang, Ke Ji ^a   Ma, Zhe ^a   Tong, Li Min ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL FIBERS; TELLURIUM COMPOUNDS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

FIBER DIAMETERS; INTENSITY DISTRIBUTION; LIGHT WAVELENGTHS; NEAR FIELDS; STANDARD FIBERS; SUBWAVELENGTH SCALE; SUBWAVELENGTH-DIAMETER; THREE DIMENSIONS;

FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD;

NANOTUBE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTICS; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; OPTICS; RADIATION SCATTERING; THEORETICAL MODEL; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FIBER OPTICS; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; LIGHT; MINIATURIZATION; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NANOTUBES; OPTICS; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 45249123392     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.008887     Document Type: Article

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