High numerical aperture in multimode microstructured optical fibers

Applied Optics

Volumn 43, Issue 33, 2004, Pages 6191-6197

  Issa, Nader A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; DOPING (ADDITIVES); EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; IONIZATION; MICROSTRUCTURE; SILICA; VECTORS;

EIGENSOLUTIONS; NUMERICAL APERTURE (NA); SKEW RAYS;

OPTICAL FIBERS;

EID: 10444222550     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.43.006191     Document Type: Article

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