Fabrication and characterization of porous-core honeycomb bandgap THz fibers

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 28, 2012, Pages 29507-29517

  Bao, Hualong ^a   Nielsen, Kristian ^a   Rasmussen, Henrik K ^a   Jepsen, Peter Uhd ^a   Bang, Ole ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGY GAP; HONEYCOMB STRUCTURES;

AIR-CORE FIBERS; BANDGAP GUIDANCE; BULK MATERIALS; EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS; FIBER LOSS; FIBER PROPAGATION; FINITE ELEMENT MODELING; FREQUENCY-DEPENDENT COUPLINGS; HIGH-PRECISION; HOLE SIZE; HOLE STRUCTURES; HONEYCOMB FIBER; PROPAGATION LOSS; REPRODUCIBILITIES;

FIBERS;

EID: 84872029998     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.029507     Document Type: Article

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