Design of solid-core microstructured optical fiber with steering-wheel air cladding for optimal evanescent-field sensing

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 3541-3546

  Zhu, Yinian ^a   Du, Henry ^a   Bise, Ryan ^b  

^a STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b OFS LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLADDING (COATING); COMPUTATION THEORY; CRYSTAL LATTICES; MICROSTRUCTURE; NUMERICAL METHODS; SOL-GELS;

EVANESCENT-FIELD SENSING; STEERING-WHEEL STRUCTURED FIBER; STEP-INDEX MODEL; TRIANGULAR LATTICES;

OPTICAL FIBERS;

EID: 33645827130     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.003541     Document Type: Article

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