Realistic monomode air-core honeycomb photonic bandgap fiber with pockets

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 23, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 2702-2706

  Haas, Thomas ^a   Belau, Stefan ^a   Doll, Theodor ^a,b  

^a ILMENAU UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b INSTITUT FÜR MIKROTECHNIK MAINZ GMBH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Air core fiber; Hollow core fiber; Honeycomb lattice; Photonic bandgap fiber; Plane wave method (PWM)

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CRYSTALS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; MATRIX ALGEBRA; OPTICS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; VECTORS;

AIR CORE FIBER; HOLLOW CORE FIBER; HONEYCOMB LATTICE; PHOTONIC BANDGAP FIBER; PLANE WAVE METHOD (PWM);

OPTICAL FIBERS;

EID: 26844465555     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2005.850794     Document Type: Article

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