Modal characteristics of antiresonant reflecting pipe waveguides for terahertz waveguiding

Chih-Hsien Lai1, Borwen You, Ja-Yu Lu

  • 1Graduate Institute of Photonics and Optoelectronics, National Taiwan University, Taipei, 10617, Taiwan.

Optics Express
|February 23, 2010
PubMed

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