Tapered silicon optical fibers

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 7596-7601

  Healy, N ^a   Sparks, J R ^b   Sazio, P J A ^a   Badding, J V ^b   Peacock, A C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBERS; OPTICAL FIBER FABRICATION; OPTICAL FIBERS; SILICON;

CHEMICAL DEPOSITION; CORE DIMENSION; FUSION SPLICERS; HIGH PRESSURE; MATERIAL CHARACTERIZATIONS; SILICA CAPILLARY; SILICON FIBERS; SMOOTH TRANSITIONS;

AMORPHOUS SILICON;

EID: 77950872927     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.007596     Document Type: Article

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