Low-loss asymptotically single-mode propagation in large-core OmniGuide fibers

Optics Express

Volumn 9, Issue 13, 2001, Pages 748-779

  Johnson, Steven G ^a   Ibanescu, Mihai ^a   Skorobogatiy, M ^a   Weisberg, Ori ^a   Engeness, Torkel D ^a   Soljačić, Marin ^a   Jacobs, Steven A ^a   Joannopoulos, J D ^a   Fink, Yoel ^a  

^a OmniGuide   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC DEVICES; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT PROPAGATION; LIGHT REFLECTION; MICROWAVES; MIRRORS; MULTILAYERS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; SILICA; SINGLE MODE FIBERS;

BRAGG REFLECTORS; OMNIGUIDE FIBERS; RADIATION LEAKAGE; SILICA FIBERS;

FIBER OPTICS;

EID: 0000708186     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.9.000748     Document Type: Article

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