Surface nanoscale axial photonics

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 27, 2011, Pages 26470-26485

  Sumetsky, M ^a   Fini, J M ^a  

^a OFS LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION THEORY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING; OPTICAL FIBERS; QUANTUM THEORY; SLOW LIGHT; WHISPERING GALLERY MODES;

AXIAL PROPAGATION; DINGER EQUATION; FIBER RADIUS; FIBER SURFACE; LOW SURFACE ROUGHNESS; PHOTONIC INTEGRATIONS; POINT SOURCES; POTENTIAL BARRIERS;

SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

GLASS FIBER; NANOMATERIAL;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; PHOTON; RADIATION SCATTERING; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; MODELS, CHEMICAL; NANOSTRUCTURES; OPTICAL FIBERS; PHOTONS; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 84555163622     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.026470     Document Type: Article

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