Pure chiral optical fibres

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 968-980

  Poladian, L ^a   Straton, M ^a   Docherty, A ^a   Argyros, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBERS; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL ROTATION; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; POLARIZATION; REFRACTIVE INDEX; ROTATION;

CHIRAL MATERIAL; CIRCULAR POLARISATION; DIFFERENT MECHANISMS; MATHEMATICAL FORMULATION; OPTICAL FIBRE; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBRES; POLARISATION;

PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS;

GLASS FIBER;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY;

COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LIGHT; OPTICAL FIBERS; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 78751550631     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.000968     Document Type: Article

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