Ultra-flattened chromatic dispersion controllability using a defected-core photonic crystal fiber with low confinement losses

Optics Express

Volumn 13, Issue 21, 2005, Pages 8365-8371

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

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PHOTONS;

MUTUAL CANCELLATION; PHOTONOIC CRYSTAL FIBERS (PCF); ULTRA-FLATTENED CHROMATIC DISPERSION;

DISPERSIONS;

EID: 26844495370     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.13.008365     Document Type: Article

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