Title :
Silk foam terahertz waveguides
Author :
Hichem Gueboukha;Guofeng Yan;Olga Skorobogata;Maksim Skorobogatiy
Author_Institution :
Department of Engineering Physics, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Montreal, Canada
Abstract :
Silk foam-based terahertz waveguides are fabricated using lyophilisation and casting techniques. This work is motivated by the lack of biocompatible waveguides for low-loss guidance of THz for applications in remote sensing in biomedical and agro-alimentary industries.
Keywords :
"Optical fiber sensors","Optical fiber polarization","Biomedical optical imaging"
Conference_Titel :
Infrared, Millimeter, and Terahertz waves (IRMMW-THz), 2015 40th International Conference on
Electronic_ISBN :
2162-2035
DOI :
10.1109/IRMMW-THz.2015.7327668
