Hole-Assisted Fiber Design for Small Bending and Splice Losses

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 15, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 1737-1739

  Nakajima, Kazuhide ^a   Hogari, Kazuo ^a   Zhou, Jian ^a   Tajima, Katsusuke ^a   Sankawa, Izumi ^a  

^a NTT Access Network Service Systems Laboratories   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bending loss; Hole assisted fiber; Index matching oil; Mode field diameter (MFD); Splice loss

Indexed keywords

BENDING (DEFORMATION); CLADDING (COATING); MAXWELL EQUATIONS; OPTICAL DESIGN; OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; REFRACTIVE INDEX; THERMAL EFFECTS;

HOLE-ASSISTED FIBERS; INDEX-MATCHING OIL; SPLICE LOSSES;

SINGLE MODE FIBERS;

EID: 0347655017     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2003.819723     Document Type: Article

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