Impact of fiber design on polarization dependence in microbend gratings

Optics Express

Volumn 13, Issue 18, 2005, Pages 6870-6877

  Golowich, Steven E ^a,b   Ramachandran, Siddharth ^c  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^b MIT LINCOLN LABORATORY   (United States)

^c OFS LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COSTS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; OPTICAL FIBERS; TUNING;

FIBER DESIGN; MICROBEND GRATINGS; TRANSMISSION FIBERS;

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS;

EID: 24944560726     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.13.006870     Document Type: Article

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