Optical fiber nanowires and microwires: Fabrication and applications

Advances in Optics and Photonics

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 107-161

  Brambilla, Gilberto ^a   Xu, Fei ^a   Horak, Peter ^a   Jung, Yongmin ^a   Koizumi, Fumihito ^b   Sessions, Neil P ^a   Koukharenko, Elena ^a   Feng, Xian ^a   Murugan, Ganapathy S ^a   Wilkinson, James S ^a   Richardson, David J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b ASAHI GLASS CO LTD   (Japan)

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EID: 70249087079     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19438206     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AOP.1.000107     Document Type: Article

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