Form-induced birefringence in elliptical hollow photonic crystal fiber with large mode area

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 41, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1558-1564

  Belardi, Walter ^a   Bouwmans, Géraud ^a   Provino, Laurent ^a   Douay, Marc ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DES SCIENCES ET TECHNOLOGIES DE LILLE   (France)

Author keywords

Birefringence; Fiber characterization; Fiber design and fabrication; Large core fiber; Photonic crystal fiber; Single mode fiber

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; LIGHT POLARIZATION; OPTICAL DESIGN; OPTICAL FIBER FABRICATION;

FIBER CHARACTERIZATION; FIBER DESIGN AND FABRICATION; LARGE CORE FIBER; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBER;

SINGLE MODE FIBERS;

EID: 29244451095     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JQE.2005.858793     Document Type: Article

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