Suspended core subwavelength fibers: Towards practical designs for low-loss terahertz guidance

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 9127-9138

  Rozé, Mathieu ^a   Ung, Bora ^a   Mazhorova, Anna ^a   Walther, Markus ^b   Skorobogatiy, Maksim ^a  

^a ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DESIGN; ENCLOSURES; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; TERAHERTZ WAVES;

ENVIRONMENTAL PERTURBATIONS; FIBER CORES; FIBER PROPAGATION; GUIDED MODES; LOW LOSS; NEAR FIELD IMAGING; NEAR FIELD MICROSCOPY; OUTER DIAMETERS; POLYMER FIBER; SENSING APPLICATIONS; SINGLE MODE; SUB-WAVELENGTH; SUBWAVELENGTH IMAGING; SUSPENDED SOLIDS; TERA HERTZ; TERAHERTZ IMAGING;

FIBERS;

EID: 79955870621     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.009127     Document Type: Article

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