THz porous fibers: Design, fabrication and experimental characterization

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 16, 2009, Pages 14053-14062

  Atakaramians, Shaghik ^a   Afshar, Shahraam V ^a   Ebendorff Heidepriem, Heike ^a   Nagel, Michael ^b   Fischer, Bernd M ^a   Abbott, Derek ^a   Monro, Tanya M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; DISPERSION (WAVES); FABRICATION; FIBERS; OPTICAL FIBERS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; TERAHERTZ SPECTROSCOPY; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

EFFECTIVE REFRACTIVE INDEX; EXPERIMENTAL CHARACTERIZATION; HIGH BIREFRINGENCE; LOW DISPERSIONS; MICRO WIRE; POLYMER FIBER; POROUS FIBERS; TERAHERTZ TIME DOMAIN SPECTROSCOPY;

OPTICAL FIBER FABRICATION;

GLASS FIBER; POLYMER;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; MATERIALS; MATERIALS TESTING; POROSITY;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; MANUFACTURED MATERIALS; MATERIALS TESTING; OPTICAL FIBERS; POLYMERS; POROSITY;

EID: 68349127208     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.014053     Document Type: Article

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