Dispersion effects in elliptical-core highly birefringent fibers

Applied Optics

Volumn 40, Issue 12, 2001, Pages 1911-1920

  Urbanczyk, Waclaw ^a   Martynkien, Tadeusz ^a   Bock, Wojtek J ^b  

^a WROCLAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC EN OUTAOUAIS   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; ELECTROMAGNETIC DISPERSION; INTERFEROMETRY; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; STRESSES;

PRESSURE SENSITIVITY;

OPTICAL FIBERS;

EID: 0001725147     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.40.001911     Document Type: Article

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