Test of photonic crystal fiber in broadband interferometry

Applied Optics

Volumn 44, Issue 13, 2005, Pages 2496-2500

  Vergnole, Sébastien ^a,b   Delage, Laurent ^a,b   Reynaud, François ^a,b   Labonté, Laurent ^a,c   Roy, Philippe ^a,c   Mélin, Gilles ^d   Gasca, Laurent ^d  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b Optique Cohérente et Non Linéaire   (France)

^c Optique Guidée et Intégrée ^*

^d NOKIA RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; CLADDING (COATING); INTERFEROMETRY; PHOTONS; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; SILICA; SINGLE MODE FIBERS; TOMOGRAPHY;

ASTRONOMICAL BANDS; BROADBAND INTERFEROMETRY; COHERENT TOMOGRAPHY; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS;

CRYSTALS;

EID: 19944388905     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.44.002496     Document Type: Article

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