Interplay of form and material birefringence in photonic crystal fibers: Application for sensing

Proceedings of 2004 6th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks

Volumn 2, Issue , 2004, Pages 95-98

  Kotyński, Rafal ^a   Panajotov, Krassimir ^a   Antkowiak, Maciej ^a,b   Nasiłowski, Tomasz ^a   Lesiak, Piotr ^c   Wójcik, Jan ^d   Thienpont, Hugo ^a  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^b BELGIAN NUCLEAR RESEARCH CENTRE   (Belgium)

^c WARSAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^d MARIA CURIE SK ODOWSKA UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; BIREFRINGENCE; CRYSTALS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; MICROSTRUCTURE; OPTICAL FIBERS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SILICA; STRAIN; VECTORS; WAVE EQUATIONS;

FIBER SENSING; PHOTONIC BANDGAP; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS (PCF); PROPAGATION CONSTANTS;

PHOTONS;

EID: 11244346664     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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