Subwavelength-diameter silica wires for low-loss optical wave guiding

Nature - Tập 426 Số 6968 - Trang 816-819 - 2003
Limin Tong1,2, Rafael R. Gattass2, Jonathan B. Ashcom2,3, Sailing He1, Jingyi Lou1, Mengyan Shen2,4, Iva Maxwell2, Eric Mazur2
1Centre for Optical and Electromagnetic Research and Department of Physics, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
2Department of Physics and Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA
3[Lincoln Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Lexington, USA]
4Department of Physics, Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University, Miyagi, Sendai, Japan

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