A novel ultra-low loss hollow-core waveguide using subwavelength high-contrast gratings

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 1508-1517

  Zhou, Ye ^a   Karagodsky, Vadim ^a   Pesala, Bala ^a   Sedgwick, Forrest G ^a   Chang Hasnain, Connie J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DELAY CIRCUITS; FIBER OPTIC SENSORS; WAVEGUIDES;

BASIC BUILDING BLOCK; HIGH CONTRAST GRATING (HCG); HIGH-CONTRAST GRATINGS; HOLLOW CORE WAVEGUIDE; HOLLOW WAVEGUIDES; INTEGRATED PHOTONIC CIRCUIT; OPTICAL DELAY LINES; THREE ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE;

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS;

EID: 59749090088     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.001508     Document Type: Article

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