Generation of large alkali vapor densities inside bare hollow-core photonic band-gap fibers

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 23, 2008, Pages 18976-18983

  Slepkov, Aaron D ^a   Bhagwat, Amar R ^a   Venkataraman, Vivek ^a   Londero, Pablo ^a   Gaeta, Alexander L ^a  

^a Department of Materials Science and Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGY GAP; FIBERS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; RUBIDIUM;

ATOMIC SOURCES; FIBER YIELD; HOLLOW-CORE PHOTONIC BAND-GAP FIBERS; LIGHT-INDUCED ATOMIC DESORPTIONS; OPTICAL DEPTH; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; RUBIDIUM DENSITY; THERMAL TUNING;

PHOTONIC BAND GAP;

ALKALI; GLASS FIBER; RUBIDIUM;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; GAS; PHOTON; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ALKALIES; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; GASES; OPTICAL FIBERS; PHOTONS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RUBIDIUM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 56149104783     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.018976     Document Type: Article

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