Coherent hollow-core waveguide bundles for thermal imaging

Applied Optics

Volumn 49, Issue 25, 2010, Pages 4700-4709

  Gal, Udi ^a   Harrington, James ^b   Ben David, Moshe ^a   Bledt, Carlos ^b   Syzonenko, Nicholas ^b   Gannot, Israel ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b Piscataway   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFRARED IMAGING; LIGHT PROPAGATION; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; SILVER; THERMOGRAPHY (IMAGING); WAVEGUIDES;

ENDOSCOPIC SYSTEMS; FIBER IMAGE BUNDLES; HOLLOW GLASS WAVEGUIDE; HOLLOW WAVEGUIDES; HOLLOW-CORE WAVEGUIDE BUNDLES; OPTICAL AND MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; THIN-FILM COATINGS; WAVELENGTH RANGES;

FIBERS;

GLASS FIBER;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ENDOSCOPY; HUMAN; INFRARED RADIATION; METHODOLOGY; TEMPERATURE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ENDOSCOPY; HUMANS; INFRARED RAYS; OPTICAL FIBERS; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 77957684422     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.49.004700     Document Type: Article

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