Natural Silk as a Photonics Component: A Study on Its Light Guiding and Nonlinear Optical Properties

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Kujala, Sami ^a   Mannila, Anna ^a,b   Karvonen, Lasse ^a   Kieu, Khanh ^c   Sun, Zhipei ^a  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b Spinverse Ltd   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

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EID: 84959549966     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep22358     Document Type: Article

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