Endlessly single-mode holey fibers: The influence of core design

Optics Express

Volumn 13, Issue 26, 2005, Pages 10833-10839

  Saitoh, Kunimasa ^a   Tsuchida, Yukihiro ^a   Koshiba, Masanori ^a   Mortensen, Niels Asger ^b  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

AIR HOLES; HOLEY FIBERS (HF); LONGITUDINAL NON-UNIFORMITIES; MACRO-BENDING INDUCED LOSS;

OPTICAL FIBERS;

EID: 29244470454     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.13.010833     Document Type: Article

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