Confinement losses in air-guiding photonic bandgap fibers

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 236-238

  Saitoh, Kunimasa ^a   Koshiba, Masanori ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Confinement loss; Finite element method; Photonic bandgap fiber; Photonic crystal fiber

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; ENERGY GAP; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS;

CONFINEMENT LOSSES; PHOTONIC BANDGAP FIBERS; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBER;

OPTICAL FIBERS;

EID: 0037320893     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2002.806891     Document Type: Article

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