Interferometric examination of the effect of bending on some single-mode fibre parameters

Journal of Optics A: Pure and Applied Optics

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 575-579

  El Diasty, Fouad ^a  

^a Ain Shams University   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Birefringence and bending; Fibre characterization; Fibre parameters; Fizeau interferometry; Single mode fibre

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; BENDING (DEFORMATION); BIREFRINGENCE; INTERFEROMETRY; MODAL ANALYSIS;

FIBRE INDEX PROFILE; MODAL DISPERSION; MULTIPLE-BEAM FIZEAU FRINGES; OPTICAL ANISOTROPY;

SINGLE MODE FIBERS;

EID: 0036710847     PISSN: 14644258     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1464-4258/4/5/314     Document Type: Article

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