The role of confinement loss in highly nonlinear silica holey fibers

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 15, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 1246-1248

  Finazzi, Vittoria ^a   Monro, Tanya M ^a   Richardson, David J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fiber design and fabrication; Fiber properties; Microstructured optical fibers; Nonlinear optical fibers

Indexed keywords

MICROOPTICS; MICROSTRUCTURE; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL DESIGN; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SILICA;

CONFINEMENT LOSS; MICROSTRUCTURED OPTICAL FIBERS; NONLINEAR SILICA HOLEY FIBERS;

OPTICAL FIBERS;

EID: 0141786803     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2003.816702     Document Type: Article

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