A fast and accurate numerical tool to model the modal properties of photonic-bandgap fibers

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 2979-2993

  Dangui, Vinayak ^a   Digonnet, Michel J F ^a   Kino, Gordon S ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGY GAP; FIBERS; IMAGE CODING; MATRIX ALGEBRA; WAVEGUIDES;

FINITE-DIFFERENCE NUMERICAL METHOD; PHOTONIC-BANDGAP FIBERS (PBF); VECTORIAL TRANSVERSE MAGNETIC-FIELD EQUATION;

OPTICAL FIBERS;

EID: 33645523061     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.002979     Document Type: Article

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