Image transport through a disordered optical fibre mediated by transverse Anderson localization

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Karbasi, Salman ^a   Frazier, Ryan J ^a   Koch, Karl W ^b   Hawkins, Thomas ^c   Ballato, John ^c   Mafi, Arash ^a  

^a University of Wisconsin Milwaukee   (United States)

^b Corning Incorporated ^*  (United States)

^c Clemson University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLASS FIBER;

GLASS; PIXEL; WAVELENGTH;

ARTICLE; ATTENUATION; DEGRADATION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; LIGHT QUALITY; REFRACTION INDEX; SIMULATION; TRANSVERSE ANDERSON LOCALIZATION;

EID: 84896819168     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms4362     Document Type: Article

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