Determination of the wavelength dependence of the coupling effect in twin-core microstructured polymer optical fibers

Optical Engineering

Volumn 46, Issue 7, 2007, Pages

  Yu, Xia ^a   van Eijkelenborg, Martijn A ^b   Shum, Ping ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Beat length; Coupling coefficient; Microstructured optical fiber; Polymer fiber

Indexed keywords

NUMERICAL METHODS; POLYMERS; WAVELENGTH;

BEAT LENGTH; MICROSTRUCTURED POLYMER OPTICAL FIBER; PLANE-WAVE EXPANSION METHOD;

OPTICAL FIBER COUPLING;

EID: 34548630163     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: 15602303     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.2751137     Document Type: Article

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