Coupling starlight into single-mode photonic crystal fiber using a field lens

Optics Express

Volumn 13, Issue 17, 2005, Pages 6527-6540

  Corbett, Jason C W ^a   Allington Smith, Jeremy R ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALS; IMAGE PROCESSING; LENSES; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; PHOTONS; SINGLE MODE FIBERS;

ATTENUATION SPECTRUM; LARGE MODE AREA (LMA); SINGLE-MODE PHOTONIC CRYSTAL; TELESCOPE EXIT PUPIL;

FIBER OPTICS;

EID: 24144450307     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.13.006527     Document Type: Review

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