Cladding-mode assisted fiber-to-fiber and fiber-to-free-space coupling

Optics Communications

Volumn 183, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 377-388

  Li, Yufeng ^a   Erdogan, Turan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; SINGLE MODE FIBERS;

FRESNEL DIFFRACTION APPROXIMATION;

FIBER OPTICS;

EID: 0034273384     PISSN: 00304018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0030-4018(00)00863-4     Document Type: Article

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