Deposition of carbon nanotubes around microfiber via evanascent light

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 20, 2009, Pages 18364-18370

  Kashiwagi, Ken ^b   Yamashita, Shinji ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; DEPOSITION; FIBER LASERS; FIBERS; NANOTUBES; OPTICAL FIBER COUPLING; OPTICAL FIBER FABRICATION; PASSIVE MODE LOCKING; WAVEGUIDES; YARN;

DIFFERENT STRUCTURE; EVANESCENT COUPLING; FABRICATION METHOD; FIBER STRUCTURES; GUIDED LIGHT; OPTICAL DAMAGE THRESHOLD; PASSIVELY MODE-LOCKED FIBER LASERS; THIRD-ORDER NON-LINEARITY;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

CARBON NANOTUBE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; FIBER OPTICS; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; LIGHT; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION SCATTERING;

FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; LASERS; LIGHT; MATERIALS TESTING; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NANOTUBES, CARBON; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 70349690749     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.018364     Document Type: Article

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