Simple geometric criterion to predict the existence of surface modes in air-core photonic-bandgap fibers

Optics Express

Volumn 12, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1864-1872

  Digonnet, Michel J F ^a   Kim, Hyang Kyun ^a   Shin, Jonghwa ^a   Fan, Shanhui ^a   Kino, Gordon S ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CLADDING (COATING); COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; PHOTONS;

DIELECTRIC RODS; PHOTONIC-BANDGAP FIBERS (PBF); SURFACE MODES;

OPTICAL FIBERS;

EID: 2942722760     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.12.001864     Document Type: Article

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