Dispersion-flattened photonic crystal fiber with large effective area and low confinement loss

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 23, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 4178-4183

  Matsui, Takashi ^a   Zhou, Jian ^a   Nakajima, Kazuhide ^a   Sankawa, Izumi ^a  

^a NTT Access Network Service Systems Laboratories   (Japan)

Author keywords

Confinement loss; Flattened dispersion; Large effective area; Optical fiber communication; Photonic crystal fiber

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; CRYSTALS; DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; LIGHT TRANSMISSION;

CONFINEMENT LOSS; FLATTENED DISPERSION; LARGE EFFECTIVE AREA; PHOTONONIC CRYSTAL FIBER;

SINGLE MODE FIBERS;

EID: 31344434856     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2005.858250     Document Type: Article

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