Optical power flow in plastic-clad silica fibers

Applied Optics

Volumn 41, Issue 36, 2002, Pages 7588-7591

  Savović, Svetislav ^a   Djordjevich, Alexandar ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CLADDING (COATING); PLASTICS; SILICA;

PLASTIC-CLAD SILICA FIBERS (PCSF);

OPTICAL FIBER COUPLING;

EID: 0037147567     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.41.007588     Document Type: Article

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