Drawing of the hollow all-polymer Bragg fibers

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 13, 2006, Pages 5838-5852

  Pone, Elio ^a   Dubois, Charles ^a   Guo, Ning ^a   Gao, Yan ^a   Dupuis, Alexandre ^a   Boismenu, Francis ^a   Lacroix, Suzanne ^a   Skorobogatiy, Maksim ^a  

^a ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

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EID: 85010161573     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.005838     Document Type: Article

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