Selective filling of photonic crystal fibers using focused ion beam milled microchannels

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 18, 2011, Pages 17585-17590

  Wang, Fei ^a   Yuan, Wu ^a   Hansen, Ole ^a   Bang, Ole ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR; CRYSTAL WHISKERS; FIBERS; FOCUSED ION BEAMS; MICROCHANNELS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; SINGLE MODE FIBERS;

AIR HOLES; IN-LINE; INTEGRATED TECHNIQUES; LOW LOSS; OPTICAL HYBRIDS;

HOLEY FIBERS;

EID: 80052188796     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.017585     Document Type: Article

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