Bending loss of terahertz pipe waveguides

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 25, 2010, Pages 26332-26338

  Lu, Jen Tang ^a   Hsueh, Yu Chun ^a   Huang, Yu Ru ^a   Hwang, Yuh Jing ^b   Sun, Chi Kuang ^a,c  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b INSTITUTE OF ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS   (Taiwan)

^c RESEARCH CENTER FOR APPLIED SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PIPE;

BENDING LOSS; CLADDING MATERIAL; CORE DIAMETERS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; LEAKY WAVEGUIDES; LOW BENDING LOSS; TERAHERTZ;

WAVEGUIDES;

ARTICLE; ENERGY TRANSFER; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TERAHERTZ RADIATION; YOUNG MODULUS;

ELASTIC MODULUS; ENERGY TRANSFER; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LIGHT; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TERAHERTZ RADIATION;

EID: 78650056734     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.026332     Document Type: Article

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