Design of wideband single-polarization single-mode photonic crystal fiber

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1184-1189

  Zhang, Fandi ^a   Zhang, Min ^a   Liu, Xiaoyi ^a   Ye, Peida ^a,b  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

^b China National Institute of Standardization   (China)

Author keywords

Confinement loss; Finite element method (FEM); Photonic crystal fiber (PCF); Single polarization single mode (SPSM)

Indexed keywords

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; LIGHT POLARIZATION; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL DESIGN; SINGLE MODE FIBERS; VECTORS;

CONFINEMENT LOSS; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBER (PCF); SINGLE-POLARIZATION SINGLE MODE (SPSM);

PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

EID: 34248581122     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2007.893031     Document Type: Article

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