Design of single-moded holey fibers with large-mode-area and low bending losses: The significance of the ring-core region

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1794-1803

  Tsuchida, Yukihiro ^a   Saitoh, Kunimasa ^a   Koshiba, Masanori ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBER LASERS; LIGHT EMISSION; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; SILICA;

BENDING LOSSES; BENDING RADIUS; CONFINEMENT LOSSES;

SINGLE MODE FIBERS;

EID: 33847116300     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.001794     Document Type: Article

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