Modal characteristics of antiresonant reflecting pipe waveguides for terahertz waveguiding

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 309-322

  Lai, Chih Hsien ^a,b   You, Borwen ^c   Lu, Ja Yu ^c   Liu, Tze An ^d   Peng, Jin Long ^d   Sun, Chi Kuang ^a,e   Chang, Hung Chun ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b HWA HSIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Taiwan)

^e RESEARCH CENTER FOR APPLIED SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELDS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PIPE; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

AIR-CORE; ANTIRESONANT; ATTENUATION CONSTANTS; CORE DIAMETERS; CORE MODES; ELECTRIC FIELD VECTORS; HIGHER-ORDER MODES; INTENSITY DISTRIBUTION; LOW INDEX; MODAL CHARACTERISTICS; MODAL INDEX; MODAL PATTERNS; NUMERICAL RESULTS; TERA HERTZ; THIN DIELECTRIC LAYER; THIN PIPE; TIME DOMAIN SPECTROSCOPY; WAVE-GUIDING;

WAVEGUIDES;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; REFRACTOMETRY; TERAHERTZ RADIATION; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRANSDUCER;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OPTICAL DEVICES; REFRACTOMETRY; TERAHERTZ RADIATION; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 73549100642     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.000309     Document Type: Article

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