Minimum length of a single-mode fiber spatial filter

Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, and Vision

Volumn 19, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 2445-2448

  Wallner, Oswald ^a   Leeb, Walter R ^a   Winzer, Peter J ^a,b  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CLADDING (COATING); EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SINGLE MODE FIBERS;

SPATIAL FILTER;

OPTICAL FILTERS;

EID: 0043074801     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.19.002445     Document Type: Article

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