Minimizing bend loss by removing material inside the caustic in bent single-mode fibers

Applied Optics

Volumn 45, Issue 18, 2006, Pages 4219-4222

  Healy, Noel ^a   Hussey, Conleth D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENDING (DEFORMATION); CLADDING (COATING); LIGHT PROPAGATION; LOSS PREVENTION; RADIATION; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

BEND RADIUS; BENT SINGLE MODE FIBERS; RADIATION CAUSTIC; TELECOMMUNICATIONS FIBERS;

OPTICAL FIBERS;

EID: 33749565811     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.45.004219     Document Type: Article

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