Acoustooptic properties of a weakly multimode solid core photonic crystal fiber

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 838-845

  Haakestad, Magnus W ^b   Engan, Helge E ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Acoustic measurements; Acoustooptic devices; Optical fiber devices; Periodic structures

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVES; ACOUSTOOPTICAL EFFECTS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; PERIODIC STRUCTURES; PHASE VELOCITY;

ACOUSTIC MEASUREMENTS; ACOUSTOOPTIC INTERACTIONS; OPTICAL FIBER DEVICES; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBER (PCF);

PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

EID: 33746916854     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2005.862431     Document Type: Article

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