Conducting sheath helical winding on the core-cladding interface of a lightguide having a Piet Hein super elliptical core cross-section and a standard optical fiber of circular cross-section - A comparative modal analysis

Progress in Electromagnetics Research

Volumn 59, Issue , 2006, Pages 215-230

  Singh, V ^a   Maurya, S N ^b   Prasad, B ^c   Ojha, S P ^c  

^a CSJM UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b Institute of Engineering and Rural Technology   (India)

^c BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY   (India)

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EID: 33947251876     PISSN: 10704698     EISSN: 15598985     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2528/pier05100101     Document Type: Article

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