Mid-infrared waveguides in zinc sulfide crystal

Optical Materials Express

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 466-471

  An, Qiang ^a   Ren, Yingying ^a   Jia, Yuechen ^a   De Aldana, Javier Rodríguez Vázquez ^b   Chen, Feng ^a  

^a SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEPRESSED CLADDING; FEMTOSECOND LASER INSCRIPTIONS; MID-INFRARED WAVELENGTHS; MULTI-MODE GUIDANCE; REFRACTIVE INDEX PROFILES; SINGLE MODE WAVEGUIDES; TE POLARIZATIONS; ZINC SULFIDE (ZNS);

ELECTRIC LOSSES; INFRARED DEVICES; POLARIZATION; TWO DIMENSIONAL; WAVEGUIDES; ZINC;

ZINC SULFIDE;

EID: 84877057309     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21593930     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OME.3.000466     Document Type: Article

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