A novel approach for designing photonic crystal fiber splitters with polarization-independent propagation characteristics

Optics Express

Volumn 13, Issue 19, 2005, Pages 7365-7373

  Florous, Nikolaos ^a   Saitoh, Kunimasa ^a   Koshiba, Masanori ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; LIGHT POLARIZATION; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; PHOTONS;

OPTICAL CHARACTERIZATION; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS;

OPTICAL FIBERS;

EID: 25144497681     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.13.007365     Document Type: Article

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