Bendable, low-loss Topas fibers for the terahertz frequency range

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 8592-8601

  Nielsen, Kristian ^a   Rasmussen, Henrik K ^a   Adam, Aurèle J L ^b   Planken, Paul C M ^b   Bang, Ole ^a   Jepsen, Peter Uhd ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISPERSION (WAVES); FIBERS; OPTICAL FIBER FABRICATION; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS; TERAHERTZ SPECTROSCOPY;

ADVANCED FABRICATION; CYCLIC OLEFIN COPOLYMERS; HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION; MATERIAL DISPERSIONS; POLYMER PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; TERAHERTZ FREQUENCY RANGE; TRANSMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; WIDE FREQUENCY RANGE;

TERAHERTZ WAVES;

EID: 66449123036     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.008592     Document Type: Article

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