Modeling effects of structural distortions on air-core photonic bandgap fibers

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 25, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 2463-2468

  Li, Ming Jun ^a   West, James A ^a   Koch, Karl W ^a  

^a Corning Inc ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Modeling; Optical fiber losses; Optical fibers; Photonic bandgap fibers (PBGFs)

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; DISTORTION (WAVES); FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; OPTICAL LOSSES; PHOTONIC BAND GAP;

PHOTONIC BANDGAP FIBERS; STRUCTURAL DISTORTIONS; TUNNELING LOSS;

OPTICAL FIBERS;

EID: 34548652960     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2007.902744     Document Type: Article

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