Title :
Experimental investigation of dispersion properties of THz porous fibers
Author :
Atakaramians, Shaghik ; Shahraam, Afshar V. ; Nagel, Michael ; Ebendorff-Heidepriem, Heike ; Fischer, Bernd M. ; Monro, Tanya M. ; Abbott, Derek
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Chem. & Phys., Univ. of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia
Abstract :
Here we demonstrate the experimental results on in-house fabricated polymer THz porous fiber with sub-wavelength features. The experimental results confirm the theoretical prediction of low dispersion characteristics in a THz porous fiber as compared to a microwire.
Keywords :
holey fibres; microwave photonics; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre fabrication; polymer fibres; porous materials; terahertz wave devices; dispersion properties; in-house THz porous fiber fabrication; polymer THz fiber; sub-wavelength fiber; Dielectric losses; Fiber lasers; Hollow waveguides; Laser mode locking; Laser theory; Photonics; Preforms; Refractive index; Scanning electron microscopy; Wavelength measurement;
Conference_Titel :
Infrared, Millimeter, and Terahertz Waves, 2009. IRMMW-THz 2009. 34th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Busan
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-5416-7
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-5417-4
DOI :
10.1109/ICIMW.2009.5324967
