Low loss silica hollow core fibers for 3-4 μm spectral region

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 11153-11158

  Yu, Fei ^a   Wadsworth, William J ^a   Knight, Jonathan C ^a  

^a University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFRARED TRANSMISSION; SILICA;

CORE WALL; HOLLOW CORE FIBER; LOW-LOSS; MID-INFRARED TRANSMISSION; MINIMUM ATTENUATION; NEGATIVE CURVATURE; SPECTRAL REGION; TRANSMISSION BAND;

OPTICAL FIBERS;

GLASS FIBER; SILICON DIOXIDE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTICS; INFRARED SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; OPTICS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; LIGHT; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; SILICON DIOXIDE; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, INFRARED;

EID: 84861128123     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.011153     Document Type: Article

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