Confinement loss in adiabatic photonic crystal fiber tapers

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 23, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1965-1974

  Kuhlmey, Boris T ^a   Nguyen, Hong C ^a   Steel, M J ^a,b   Eglleton, Benjamin J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b RSoft Design Group Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CRYSTALS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHOTONS;

ADIABATIC APPROXIMATION; CONFINEMENT LOSS; CORE-MODE CUTOFF; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBER (PCF);

OPTICAL FIBERS;

EID: 33749608426     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.23.001965     Document Type: Article

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