Design of all-solid bandgap fiber with improved confinement and bend losses

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 18, Issue 24, 2006, Pages 2560-2562

  Ren, Guobin ^a   Shum, Ping ^a   Zhang, Liren ^a   Yan, Min ^a   Yu, Xia ^a   Tong, Weijun ^b   Luo, Jie ^b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b Yangtze Optical Fiber and Cable Company Ltd   (China)

Author keywords

Bend loss; Confinement loss; Photonic bandgap; Photonic crystal fiber

Indexed keywords

CLADDING (COATING); ENERGY DISSIPATION; ENERGY GAP; OPTICAL DESIGN;

BANDGAP; BEND LOSS; CONFINEMENT LOSS; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBER;

OPTICAL FIBERS;

EID: 33845749706     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2006.887227     Document Type: Article

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