In-situ monitoring of optical deposition of carbon nanotubes onto fiber end

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 5711-5715

  Kashiwagi, Ken ^a,c   Yamashita, Shinji ^a   Set, Sze Yun ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b YK Building 2F   (Japan)

^c TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CARBON NANOTUBES; NANOTUBES; OPTICAL FIBERS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; YARN;

FIELD EMISSION SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPES; IN- SITU MONITORING; NONLINEAR CHARACTERISTICS; NONLINEAR OPTICAL DEVICES; OPTICAL DEPOSITIONS; OPTICAL MANIPULATION; OPTICAL REFLECTOMETRY; QUASI-ONE DIMENSIONAL;

NONLINEAR OPTICS;

CARBON NANOTUBE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CRYSTALLIZATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; FIBER OPTICS; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

CRYSTALLIZATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; LIGHT; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NANOTUBES, CARBON;

EID: 65249137077     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.005711     Document Type: Article

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