The impact of elliptical deformations for optimizing the performance of dual-core fluorine-doped photonic crystal fiber couplers

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1982-1995

  Varshney, Shailendra K ^a   Florous, Nikolaos J ^a   Saitoh, Kunimasa ^a   Koshiba, Masanori ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; LIGHT PROPAGATION; OPTICAL FIBER COUPLING; OPTIMIZATION;

BEAM PROPAGATION; DESIGN PARAMETERS; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS (PCF);

OPTICAL FIBERS;

EID: 33644765896     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.001982     Document Type: Article

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