Near-elliptic core polarization-maintaining photonic crystal fiber: Modeling birefringence characteristics and realization

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1301-1303

  Chaudhuri, Partha Roy ^a   Paulose, Varghese ^a   Zhao, Chunliu ^a   Lu, Chao ^b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR INFOCOMM RESEARCH   (Singapore)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Asymmetric core; High birefringence; Modal analysis; Photonic crystal fiber (PCF)

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BIREFRINGENCE; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; CRYSTALS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; MODAL ANALYSIS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES;

INDEX GUIDING PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBER; NEAR ELLIPTIC CORE POLARIZATION; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBER;

OPTICAL FIBERS;

EID: 2442619051     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2004.826219     Document Type: Article

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