Transmission measurements of hollow-core THz Bragg fibers

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 896-907

  Dupuis, Alexandre ^a   Stoeffler, Karen ^a   Ung, Bora ^a   Dubois, Charles ^a   Skorobogatiy, Maksim ^a  

^a ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAGG CELLS; FREQUENCY BANDS; POLYMERS; WAVEGUIDES;

BENDING LOSS; BRAGG FIBERS; COUPLING LOSS; HIGH INDEX CONTRAST; HIGH-INDEX; HOLLOW-CORE; INDEX CONTRASTS; MULTIMODES; NONIDEAL STRUCTURES; POLYMER COMPOSITE; POWER ABSORPTION; PURE POLYMERS; SPECTRAL CHARACTERISTICS; TERAHERTZ; THEORETICAL SIMULATION; TOTAL LOSS; TRANSMISSION MEASUREMENTS; UPPER BOUND; WAVE-GUIDING; WAVEGUIDE DISPERSIONS;

PHOTONIC BANDGAP FIBERS;

EID: 79959230041     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.28.000896     Document Type: Article

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