Dispersion Controlled and Polarization Maintaining Photonic Crystal Fibers for High Performance Network Systems

IEICE Transactions on Electronics

Volumn E87-C, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 336-342

  Kawanishi, Satoki ^a   Yamamoto, Takashi ^a   Kubota, Hirokazu ^a   Tanaka, Masatoshi ^b   Yamaguchi, Syun ichiro ^b  

^a NTT Corporation   (Japan)

^b Mitsubishi Cable Industries Ltd   (Japan)

Author keywords

Optical fibers; Photonic crystal fibers; Polarization maintaining fibers

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALS; DEMULTIPLEXING; ELECTROMAGNETIC DISPERSION; ENERGY GAP; LIGHT POLARIZATION; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS; OPTICAL SWITCHES; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; PHOTONS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; ROUTERS; SILICA; SINGLE MODE FIBERS; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS; POLARIZATION MAINTAINING FIBERS;

OPTICAL FIBER FABRICATION;

EID: 1642387265     PISSN: 09168524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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