Limits of light guidance in optical nanofibers

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 3754-3761

  Hartung, Alexander ^a   Brueckner, Sven ^a   Bartelt, Hartmut ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF PHOTONIC TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBERS; NANOFIBERS; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL MATERIALS;

DIAMETER VARIATION; FIBER DIAMETERS; FUNDAMENTAL MODES; LIGHT GUIDANCE; OPTICAL FIBER TAPERS; POWER DISTRIBUTIONS; PROPAGATION PROPERTIES; THRESHOLD BEHAVIOR; TRANSMISSION BEHAVIOR;

OPTICAL PROPERTIES;

GLASS FIBER; NANOMATERIAL;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; THEORETICAL MODEL; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICAL FIBERS; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 77149166002     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.003754     Document Type: Article

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