Highly birefringent elliptical-hole photonic crystal fiber with two big circular air holes adjacent to the core

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 18, Issue 24, 2006, Pages 2638-2640

  Yue, Yang ^a   Kai, Guiyun ^a   Wang, Zhi ^a   Lu, Yunfei ^a   Zhang, Chunshu ^a   Sun, Tingting ^a   Li, Yan ^a   Jin, Long ^a   Liu, Jianguo ^a   Liu, Yange ^a   Yuan, Shuzhong ^a   Dong, Xiaoyi ^a  

^a NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Birefringence; Finite element method; Photonic crystal fiber (PCF); Polarization

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; OPTICAL FIBERS; PHOTONS; POLARIZATION; VECTORS;

ELLIPTICAL AIR HOLES; MODAL BIREFRINGENCE; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBER;

OPTICAL MATERIALS;

EID: 33845726160     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2006.887330     Document Type: Article

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