Design of air-guiding modified honeycomb photonic band-gap fibers for effectively single-mode operation

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 2404-2412

  Murao, Tadashi ^a   Saitoh, Kunimasa ^a   Koshiba, Masanori ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLADDING (COATING); DESIGN; DISPERSION (WAVES); ENERGY GAP; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; HONEYCOMB STRUCTURES; LATTICE CONSTANTS; MODAL ANALYSIS; PHOTONS;

AIR HOLES; AIR-GUIDING MODIFIED HONEYCOMB PHOTONIC BAND-GAP FIBERS; FULL-VECTOR MODAL SOLVER; MODIFIED HONEYCOMB LATTICE STRUCTURE; PHOTONIC BAND-GAP; SINGLE-MODE OPERATION;

FIBERS;

EID: 33645071589     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.002404     Document Type: Article

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