Infrared fibers

Advances in Optics and Photonics

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 379-458

  Tao, Guangming ^a   Ebendorff Heidepriem, Heike ^b   Stolyarov, Alexander M ^c   Danto, Sylvain ^d   Badding, John V ^e   Fink, Yoel ^c   Ballato, John ^f   Abouraddy, Ayman F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^e PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f Clemson University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL WHISKERS; SINGLE CRYSTALS;

CRYSTALLINE SEMICONDUCTORS; INFRARED FIBERS; IR SPECTRUM; MULTI MATERIALS; OPTICAL TECHNOLOGY; SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINE; SINGLE CRYSTAL FIBER; TECHNOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS;

FIBERS;

EID: 84982701929     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19438206     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AOP.7.000379     Document Type: Review

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