Design of photonic band gap fibers with suppressed higher-order modes: Towards the development of effectively single mode large hollow-core fiber platforms

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 16, 2006, Pages 7342-7352

  Saitoh, Kunimasa ^a   Florous, Nikolaos John ^a   Murao, Tadashi ^a   Koshiba, Masanori ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION; BAND STRUCTURE; DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; LIGHT POLARIZATION; NUMERICAL METHODS;

HOLLOW-CORE FIBERS; LEAKAGE LOSSES; PHOTONIC BAND GAP FIBERS (PBGF); PROPAGATION CHARACTERISTICS;

OPTICAL FIBERS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTICITY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTICS; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; MECHANICAL STRESS; RADIATION SCATTERING; TENSILE STRENGTH; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTICITY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SCATTERING, RADIATION; STRESS, MECHANICAL; TENSILE STRENGTH;

EID: 33746901961     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.007342     Document Type: Article

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