Flexible, low-loss waveguide designs for efficient coupling to quantum cascade lasers in the far-infrared

Journal of Infrared, Millimeter, and Terahertz Waves

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 319-326

  De Cumis, Ugo Siciliani ^a   Xu, Ji Hua ^a   Bledt, Carlos M ^b   Harrington, James A ^b   Tredicucci, Alessandro ^a   Vitiello, Miriam S ^a  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b Piscataway   (United States)

Author keywords

Quantum cascade lasers; Terahertz; Waveguides

Indexed keywords

BENDING LOSS; COUPLING EFFICIENCY; DIELECTRIC COATINGS; DIELECTRIC INNER; EFFICIENT COUPLING; FAR-INFRARED; HOLLOW CORE WAVEGUIDE; LINEARLY POLARIZED; LOW LOSS; LOW-LOSS WAVEGUIDES; OPTICAL MODES; TERA HERTZ; TERAHERTZ QUANTUM-CASCADE LASERS; TRANSMISSION LOSS;

COATINGS; QUANTUM CASCADE LASERS;

WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 84862798054     PISSN: 18666892     EISSN: 18666906     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10762-012-9875-0     Document Type: Article

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