Polymer-composite fibers for transmitting high peak power pulses at 1.55 microns

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 15, 2010, Pages 15697-15703

  Ruff, Zachary ^a   Shemuly, Dana ^a   Peng, Xiang ^b   Shapira, Ofer ^a   Wang, Zheng ^a   Fink, Yoel ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^b Raydiance Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; FIBER OPTIC COMPONENTS; FIBERS;

1.55 MICRONS; ARSENIC SULFIDE; COMPOSITE FIBERS; CONSTITUENT MATERIALS; HIGH PEAK POWER; HIGH-PEAK-POWER PULSE; HOLLOW-CORE; NON-LINEARITY; NOVEL MATERIALS; OPTICAL ABSORPTION; PEAK POWER; POWER OUT PUT; PROPAGATION LOSS; TRANSMITTED PULSE;

PHOTONIC BANDGAP FIBERS;

EID: 77954946029     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.015697     Document Type: Article

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